It seemed he had taken the same meaning that she had from those words, the old stories spoke of harpies as swift robbers. Sindra did not know what to make of it, as to how it concerned the Signori's niece; politically, it could be taken as a symbol for the Ghiscari or as a metaphor for something else. It could also be taken literally, if you believed the stories of dragons.
"No, I was never shown a family tree of the great houses of either place."