Danyla looked at the seemingly honest Earl Cuy and could not help speaking with a trace of regret.
"Your loyalty to House Hightower is truly commendable, Earl Cuy. Loyalty is certainly a virtue worth honoring, but if you use it as a pretext to conduct illegal dealings behind the scenes, that is another matter entirely!"
"Earl Cuy, you never forget your loyalty to House Hightower. Why, then, have you completely forgotten your loyalty to the royal family?"
Earl Cuy naturally had no idea that Danyla already held enough evidence to crush him. Though her name had resounded throughout the Seven Kingdoms, she was, at the end of the day, only a ten-year-old princess.
So the old-fashioned Earl Cuy had never really taken Danyla seriously.
"For House Cuy, loyalty to House Hightower is naturally loyalty to the royal family. That is the legal principle of the Seven Kingdoms and the custom of Westeros."
"As a lady of the court, Princess, you naturally do not understand how these things work."
"Hahaha!"
Earl Cuy's words made Danyla burst out laughing. It seemed men like him truly represented the caliber of the many noble lords of the Seven Kingdoms.
A feudal system that had remained unchanged for thousands of years had severely restricted their thinking and outlook.
"My lord's lord is not my lord!"
Danyla had finally heard that argument again. In Westeros, many lords had almost no political awareness or broader perspective beyond eating, drinking, amusing themselves, and practicing their martial skills.
Many could not even read, let alone understand the laws of the Seven Kingdoms. They considered such knowledge the province of maesters. Clearly, Earl Cuy and Borros of Storm's End were cut from the same cloth.
"Then, Earl Cuy, whose interests were you serving when you took Princess Senyra out of