He'd assumed – likely wrongly – that the trial would have been an easy affair, given the evidence in his favour. But he hadn't accounted for the politicking. No matter how long he spent in the noble courts, he would likely never be able to keep up with such politicking. He still didn't understand quite why they moved so strongly against him. He knew it was because of his 'father', because Dominus Patrick had been so strongly disliked… but was he disliked to this degree? What had been done to Dominus that they feared retaliation from his son so strongly? And just who was it that feared it? Who were these enemies?
It was likely the High King… That was the feeling that Oliver held in his heart. No one had said it to him explicitly, but given that Dominus himself had proclaimed numerous times, and what the people here seemed to be inferring, it could be no other… but still, the question remained, why? And was it really the High King that sent those assassins after Oliver?
