The words hit George like a ton of bricks, effectively interrupting the brief moment in which he admired the woman's beautiful if but hasty privacy spell. He had heard about those spells and always wondered where he could learn them, but these thoughts quickly faded into the background when he heard her speak.
"What?" he said faintly, his eyes wide. "No," he continued, his voice getting stronger, "no, you can't - they're blood traitors, fugitives, or something, I don't know, that's what my - what I heard - I don't know, I just know that - " His words failed him for a moment and his mouth opened and closed uselessly, his tongue suddenly too big and his mouth suddenly too dry. "If you know them, that means they were arrested, doesn't it?"