The Court gossips are aflame, as always. Lord Raoul has taken Keladry the Girl to be his squire!
"Well he must not be into other men like we'd thought," one says.
"I heard she's servicing him in all sorts of ways," another agrees.
And they would keep going, sullying the reputation- or attempting to- of an honorable man and a fourteen year old girl.
Except.
Not only do the men of the Own look after their commander, helped as well by certain powerful friends like the Prime Minister, but Kel's friends look after her.
All but the most vile and persistent are effectively and non-violently silenced within weeks.