Oh, snap. I cannot bring myself to believe that in this seemingly hostile city, the soldiers forcing the Greencloaks to walk through the city unarmed by sending their weapons ahead of them is anything but a trick. Good thing they don't know Drew is among the scouts, or things would really get bloody. I don't trust these Horselords at all. If I were Broghan and the Greencloaks, I'd be running out of there as fast as possible- I could tell as soon as they started talking that they were slimy and stubborn, if not already turned traitor.
I'm wondering, though, if Larimer is really a bad person, or merely weak, or even doing what Bergan did during Leopold's reign and trying to protect the innocent people of the Longridings, caught up in someone else's fight. Bergan strikes me as simply choosing a quieter, less open kind of rebellion, though. If the Longridings secedes, they're going to bring down war on their heads from someone, whether it's Drew, Bergan, or somebody else altogether- especially if Leopold should happen to regain the throne.
Viscount Colt actually feels like more of the villain here, telling Larimer what to do and say, who to listen to. The very picture of a sleazeball adviser, manipulating the entire country to his own ends through one guy who put his trust in the wrong place.
Come to think of it, this is reminding me strongly of the scene from Lord Of The Rings, where another king of a people of horseback riders is led to ruin and disaster by a corrupt adviser listening to the devil on his shoulder.
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