“Fortunately, I now believe you. And what we have discovered seems to back your version of events, at least as far as it concerns you.” She raised her head and looked around the two of them. The crowd was giving them both an appreciatively wide berth, and her practiced eye picked out familiar faces and keen eyes watching her back. No honour guard indeed. She looked down and placed an iron shod hoof to the sphinx’s chest and he looked up. “You are still young yourself. You don’t know what’s going on, do you?”