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"She even voiced her support for the king who's hands were stained with her father's blood. "But just when she seemed like she was getting the hang of it, she stopped telling lies all together!" When I truly pressed her she could spin a lie to rival the best of them! She could combine just enough excitement to hook the imagination, but not enough to become implausible." "And this was frustrating because the child clearly had potential. It was like she did not even want vengeance for her murdered father!" "When I berated her about it, all she would do was smile. It quite ruined her development as a schemer." He told her many stories of distant lands and honourable kings and other such nonsense. "One of them sat by her side for many hours while he recovered from a tournament wound. I should have kept the corrupting taint of these rogue do-gooders away from the impressionable young Christina, but alas alas. A group of wandering Hedge Knights came by our castle, and the Countess welcomed them enthusiastically. "I believe this was the moment in my training of young Christina where I went wrong. I admit, I am a cynic, and I am open to the idea that she tried to poison her husband but amateurishly slew herself."
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Either fate was particularly cruel or there was some dark link between the deaths. "And it was a cruel fate that had orphaned her her father had been cut down as a bandit, and her mother was cut down by a mysterious illness at the age of nineteen on the very same day. I understood her need for vengeance better than most orphaned as she was." "I took your commission to train young Christina in the ways of subtlety and shadows, as was demanded of me. I have strangled a bastard child of my liege, lest it shame him. I have gutted a man from behind as he tumbled with a whore. I have cut a man down in the duelling ring and watched the way his blood hardened into the sand. I understand underhanded tactics and the necessity of cruelty. I perform my role with skill and discretion. "Countess Christina was my greatest failure.