DirkF wrote:Randomiser wrote:She claimed to have a source within the Inquisition who told her when Clyntahn intended to drop the hammer on the Wylsynn Circle. He would have to have access fairly high up to know that in advance.
I don't think so - it has been discussed elsewhere, but what really happened is that the "escape attempt" triggered an early hammer-down, not a planned one that any source inside the Inquisition could have told her about.
I'm one of those readers who think that that "source" was in reality the Wylsynn brother making an obvious fake escape attempt to get someone of his own into Clyntahn's confidence, when it became obvious that there was no way to survive - or do you think the sword under the table is standard breakfast behaviour for them?
Hi DirkF,
I agree with you about the fake escape attempt and its reason. Hauwerd set it up both to get an agent into Clyntahn's confidence and to protect Nynian from discovery since he and Samyl were the only ones who knew of the circle's connection with the madame.
However, Nynian did also have a sourse within the inquisition prior to that. I have the dead tree version of AMF and she reveals to Ahbraim that a sourse within the inquisition has revealed to her that Clyntahn is moving tomorrow. (p.345) Next in the sequence, Captain Phandys discovers that someone unnamed is trying to slip away. (p.349-350)Then you have the conversation between the brothers, Samyl's death at Hauwerd's hand, the attempt to take Hauwerd into custody and Hauwerd's death at Captain Phandys' hand.
My point being that Nynian had her source in the inquisition prior to the sequence of events with the Wylsyn brothers.
Don
