[Estinien is not a fan of the shoulder pats, which really just gives more truth to the 'sulking cat' impression. He won't make a big deal of it, though, mostly because it doesn't last long.

His follow-up question is on point enough that it at least causes Estinien to pause and hesitate. He has reason to believe that it may be more complicated than that... but that does nothing to sate the acidic resentment that has lived in his gut ever since.]

They can hardly be considered traitors when they cared for nothing beyond their own ambition in the first place.

[His eyes narrow.]

Some of those men... I never saw them do a single thing to help those of us in the dungeons. As for that witch... she was a prisoner herself.

[And he even thinks she is connected to some of the other people he met, who all seemed against Thorne's rule.]

I can only attribute her actions to a lust for power or madness.