"Then if another Crusade doesn't come together you may need to move out."

"One presumes this is not a threat, Paladin Galfrey." He cocks his head slightly, and his spectacles shine.

"I'm afraid it's geography, Actrand. If the border moves east Mendev will be short a capital."

Or they could just man up and kill the demons themselves. "Or you could do the work yourself, Paladin Galfrey." 

She's had some trouble growing stronger since the Wardstones were placed. Possibly this is simply because no terror, no stress, could match that of the Crusade at its peak, though she has other explanations that she finds more likely. "I have not, so far, been successful at that, Actrand."

"Or you could become competent."

"Once again..."

"Once again," he says. "Well, Paladin Galfrey, I see I had best brush up on my Skald. Kalsgaard has excellent markets, this time of year."

"Then is that it? You will leave Mendev and Sarkoris to their fates, whatever that may be, because of a grudge against me?"

"Do not flatter yourself, Paladin Galfrey." The black lenses of his spectacles glittered. "I leave nearly every country on the planet to its fate, as do you."

The difference between protecting a country and not doing so is more than a hundred times a life's work; the difference between protecting one and protecting two is, given that, nonexistent. "You don't happen to live there."

"No," he said, smugly, "I don't." 

"- Then this is purely a matter of -"

"You should learn to honor your agreements, Paladin Galfrey."

"I did, in fact, pay you your full salary!"

"No, Paladin Galfrey. You paid me one-eighth of my salary, and paid seven-eighths of my salary to a debt collection agency, to which I sold it to for eighty-seven percent of its value when you refused to deliver as contracted."

Half her supply wagons had been burned by Deskari's eighth-circle and it was pay her mercenary very slightly late or not feed her troops.

"I am sorry, and I have since paid more to enter your home than you lost then."

"I flatly do not understand how you are Lawful."

She flatly does not understand how he is Good.

"I do my duty."