Aldus is chopping herbs when the main gate warden arrives with a visitor.
"Brother! Here's a fellow from Amis wants to see you." And he's gone, hurrying back to his post. Aldus looks to the visitor, then laughs.
"Some 'fellow'! Hello, Aeshe." Wil's sister does not laugh. She is clutching a hood about her head to better pass as male, and her knuckles are tense. Too tense for just sneaking into an Orderhouse. Behind her, Cyrward sticks his head out of his chamber.
"Aeshe! What -"
"Wil's been arrested," Aeshe says, and Aldus stops laughing.
"What?" Cyrward comes out into the main room.
"What for?" Aldus puts the knife down and turns to face her.
"The murder of Dunstan."
"Who made the accusation?"
"The mayor. So Eadric told me."
Aldus frowns in thought. "Perhaps we were not as sneaky as we thought..."