"My mother was of your people." She replied, "Anything my people have done for yours is due to her."
She shrugged, adding the soiled cloths to the pile to be laundered, "And to save our own skins, in the long run, once the Gypsies were routed out, they'd have come for the rest of us, in time and in turn." Likely the Assassins would have been the last to go, since they were of some use to the clergy and the Palace, but they'd have been eradicated as well, in the end.