I’m surprised and I let it show on my face. Usually wrestling personal information out of you is much more difficult, but maybe for once I can get some answers out of you and some that aren’t evasions and half truths. I’m also shocked at how easily that name comes to you, as though that man is someone you know well . . . and you accept his insanity without question.

“Éomer? Let’s start there. I went out there wondering if you were cheating on me and instead I find him. Who the bloody hell is he? I assume he’s that friend of yours, the one who causes the trouble. Elmer?”