The implication that someone at the capital was already plotting against Tidas and Skye wasn't really new, but it was still sobering. Tidas had been targeted his entire life; for being his father's son, for his works against the slave trade, or simply because he was a royal. His enemies going after his wife was something he'd calculated, but not until they'd reached the capital. The fact that they were able to plant a spy in his guards was evidence of their reach. Limiting the list of suspects to only a few.
Skye looked despairingly at her husband before saying; "Ye think it could be him? Magnus would never do something like this, but He might.."