Magne's expression noticeably darkens as Erik explains Max's position, but she bites her tongue. She said that she would listen to him, and she would keep that promise.

"What you've done," she repeats quietly, after she's settled herself down with a steaming pot of tea to pour into one of the small earthenware cups that she'd taken down from a cupboard. Her tone is even, and the set of her jaw is threatening in the way that coming face to face with a mother bear would be frightening. "Lord Osborne, if you tell me that you abused this man that trusted you with his life, you are going to have to make your arguments very quickly for why I should allow you on the premises or within a hundred meters of him."