What was it with members of the nobility and getting defensive before anybody had accused them of wrongdoing? It would be one thing if they were completely breaching all forms of decorum but here they had a little girl getting offended simply by asking who it was. Fortunately, there was no need to ask her who she was: they'd met once before. After all, someone had to pass on the news of her father's demise and there had been nobody of higher rank alive at the time to do it.

"Lady Cal, we have been travelling from a nearby fort after it sent word of being under attack. Would it be correct to assume that it was you who contracted Alette the Shark to hunt down some item or another?" the knight said, cutting to the chase immediately. If anyone else wanted to deal with the bandits or interrogate the one that she was standing on, it was fine by Tyaethe.