She finished off the last of her honey-cake, annoyed, though whether it was at his refusal to answer or at her own curiosity, she couldn't say. Was it something illegal he was hiding? Or was it as innocuous as her parents' marriage? She supposed that if it was something criminal, it would crop up again sooner rather than later, and if it was something that went against all the rules of polite society, well, the nobility had heads they needed pulled right out of their asses anyway, of that she and Altair seemed to be in agreement upon.