Diarmuid's chest tightened when Ashlynn asked him to reveal the truth about the Inquisitors from Maeril. Not because he couldn't do it, but because he already had a good idea of what Lady Ashlynn wanted him to find, combined with a grim certainty that the truth she was looking for was there to be revealed.
On the way from Maeril to Lothian City, Diarmuid had plenty of time to speak with Lady Cerys' brother, Cian, about the abbey in Maeril. There was a great deal that he'd been able to learn from the boy. He'd also received enough information from Marcel to form some suspicions of his own, and if Lady Nyrielle's Spymaster was right, then the rot in Maeril's abbey spread from its very core.
The key now was to confirm what he already suspected, and to do it before the watchful eyes of Lady Ashlynn and the Lothian Court.
