The thing about paranoid men, Alistair, is that when something happens? They are satisfied in knowing they are correct. When nothing happens, and nothing happens for a long, long while? They wind themselves into knots trying to figure out what they've missed. Several masters of House Arainai I simply did not have the time or means to get to before coming here did the work for me, preferring that to whatever torments they imagine me capable of.

Then again, they did train me, so they would know.