“I gave you a sword and you blunted it out of defiance. Just to show me you could. And now what? You’ve thrown away the most valuable man in the realm because your ego couldn’t take it? Let it be known that you’ve damned us. It was you— no one else,” the steward stood at the parapet overlooking the bay. Below them swayed an iron cage with the ragged corpse of the watch commander. The prince said nothing.