13. Bias (Giddon/Bitterblue)
The reason Bitterblue chose Giddon for her experiment with honesty, as she told him, was that he is neither her relative nor her subject, and therefore she trusts him to be more impartial than either.
What she does not know is that ever since that first assassination attempt, when Giddon took the pins from her soft hair and carried her to bed – when the feeling of her in his arms reminded him, startlingly, that she was a woman now, and her courage in fighting off Danzhol won his deepest admiration – all his judgments are profoundly biased in her favor.