Seeing Ashlynn's exhaustion, Zedya took the lead in answering Rosie's questions, but she kept her answers minimal, expressing the necessary facts without revealing larger topics that would only make the delicate position the knight's wife occupied even more precarious.
"The person who ordered your poisoning, as well as your son's, was Owain Lothian," Zedya said as she retrieved her knitting and resumed her work on the small blanket. "According to his Steward, Sir Hugo, Owain resented your husband's 'betrayal' of leaving his service to join the Church as a Templar."
"Lord Owain?" Rosie said, blinking several times in surprise as her mind struggled to accept the words, and more than that, the way the woman called Zedya had said them.
