Re: [After all are settled in...]
Nor will they. Information is infectious, after all. Be it gossip or trivia or a secret, there's something that just wills its transmission through the most common vector of all: language.
You don't think the King's orders were random cruelty, do you? That little bit of string was for the most dangerous thing of all: truth...
That IS, not to say that I don't have a headache the size of a couple of galaxies.