This time, the answer was quickly given and much more thorough, serving to smooth over what doubts her silence had let rise a moment before. For the most part. Even when she spoke plainly, her words were carefully drawn from beneath a veil of secrecy. The too-familiar stink of secrets and intrigue and deadly nobles' games hung about the whole matter. Ordhan loathed it. But he could shirk neither his duty nor his conscience.
The knight sat in silence for some moments after her explanation, eyes lowered and brow furrowed. The nameless man did seem to be one who would intimately know the ways of the noble house, far more than a knight who only twice had set foot within the gates of their estate. All of it was far too shaky, too much built of guesswork and good feelings to justify oathbreaking, but Ordhan still felt he had learned something through this.
"I see," he answered, letting his eyes fall away. "Thank you for telling me. I am...trying to understand." He was still far from it, sadly.