I'm familiar with it. [There's. Some relief, and then some horror and consternation mixed together. His face is pale, remembering. In a fit of abstraction, he elaborates,] Got hit with it back in the early service days. Brutal way to kill a lot of people.

Who the hell would use it for assassination? Of a goddamn Captain?

[No, this is solely anger now. For his House, his servants, his father, his armsmen. For Cordelia. For Miles. How dare someone endanger them all to get to him?]