From Ebonshield's accusation towards her brother, it seemed that a few of their attackers might have been drawn from the ranks of soldiers who were supposed to be on duty this very night. Either they'd abandoned their posts halfway through the shift, or else they'd failed to report in at the start of it, so as to participate in his murderous ambush. The thought of members of the Night Guard committing either of those treasonous derelictions of duty really eroded her trust in what was supposed to just be the Royal Guard's nocturnal equivalent.