"Chevaliers- champions. Some nobles of Antiva keep well paid and organized guards but they know better than to stand between a noble and a Crow should they come calling. They are paid well for their service but most are happier to live and be paid by another than kill a Crow and anger the guild." It had saved him once, when he was young and foolish. Now?

Perhaps the Crows have changed their tactics- or ought to take up new ones. His strikes against them seem to have done little to change their ways.

It only makes the inevitable shift all the more drastic.

"Some may say sex is sacred. Most pay their whores and move along in Antiva. The brothels of the nobility are prettier, yes, but it is not about healing. I think I should like to live among your brothels more than my own."