Again with the 'Dagger.' Vayne wasn't stupid and realized Zidane was referencing Garnet. Clearly their relationship was close, and not in a way that the emperor found pleasing at all. He'd have to be eliminated. He wasn't precisely keen on having the surroundings change so frequently on him either. At least this one appeared provencial enough that he was confident that it was not a lifestyle that Garnet would ever embrace.

Yet Vayne looked to Rinoa, with a slight shake of his head. "It is no difficulty. Please, keep it, you have more need of it than I. Are you alright, Lady Rinoa?"