Yammo took her hand back from Zumi's to grab Tama's reins in both of her hands to help the donkey avoid some of those deep hoof prints. "A couple reasons. Most of it is because of how he's been approaching this subject. When I said we wouldn't keep him from his own lady the other day, I'd been being light-hearted. I wasn't actually making any assumptions about his relationship with the queen. But he reacted to that like I was serious, and wanted to make sure we knew how wrong that was. Even you noticed that. And he said there was nothing there. Then he showed up later, admitting to lying about things on the queen's side. That's a little odd, don't you think?"