"From me."

"When you hired us you said he was unlikely to lie. Why'd he lie about this?"

"I don't know."

"And no hypotheses or theories?"

"Perhaps he's deluded himself, too."

"You think that's the most likely possibility?"

"From my perspective, yes."

"When did this happen, and how?"

"The theft? A bit over two years ago. He came to my island, said he had a matter to discuss with me related to my mother, and then attacked me, quite unprovoked." Well, mostly. Attacking was definitely an overreaction. "I retreated, and he took the opportunity to grab my jewel and flee, but not before casting a ritual to tie me to the island."

Lying liar who lies.

"I'm gonna talk to Tetsuma for a bit, if that's okay?"

"Alright."

"He is a lying liar who lies," Dayo says then.

"Yeah. What specifically do you think he was lying about? I was having a bit of trouble with that..."

"I don't know, but he isn't working in good faith and even though I may even believe him that Lingormr has no right to the jewel Reim is not coming off as too trustworthy or sympathetic."

"Ugh. Do you think he'd use the jewel for - something nefarious?"

"I don't even know. Maybe. The problem with someone who can't be straightforward is that you can't model them straightforwardly, I don't know what he'd actually want to do with the jewel, I don't know why he won't simply tell the whole truth proactively and informatively. I guess if he wanted hired muscle who would just do as told for payment he barked up the wrong tree."

"He actually reminds me of a lot of shinobi. It's possible telling the full truth would reveal some weakness of his? We usually keep even our names secret for just that reason."

"Mostly. I'm not sure what to do."

"...It'd be nice to know how powerful this thing actually is, and what Lingormr intends to do with it - if he's malicious, it might be a bad idea to leave the jewel with him."

"Reim seems to think he either wants to go home or get rich and he doesn't strike me as committing errors of the type to be overly charitable towards the lord."

"Reim's account of how he got the jewel sounded somewhat malicious to me, but you have a point."

"Yeah, malicious, but malicious in interpreting the lord as malicious, not malicious in interpreting him as benign, so if Reim isn't worried about him using it for any... nefarious purposes... then I guess maybe we shouldn't be?"

"Yeah, that's one point."

"What else should I ask, do you think?"

"Maybe what he intends to do with the jewel?"