"To speak of your own contribution hardly detracts from her efforts."

And it had not, for a number of reasons, been an insignificant amount of assistance in the grander scheme of things. Benedict had granted them all the benefit of safety between the jagged snaps of claws and fangs, and regardless of how they'd come to bare teeth at one another during the party, his work in accumulating favor seemed fairly well executed so far as Gabranth could measure at a distance.

"Your standing within Riftwatch is poor, is it not?"