"Sounds like someone tipped them off," Deidre replied after the tale, for all of its reluctant truncation, was finished. "Maybe got shaken down. I've been around, it's easy to give up a bigger prize when your neck's in the line." Even as the mercenary-turned-Warden flicked his gaze away from her, hazel eyes remained on him.
"Still, your turn now is pretty fortuitous. An accused criminal one day, a member of one of the elite in the next. I've heard of fortunes swinging from left to right but this is one example where Fate's pendulum doesn't really seem to be able to make up its mind."