So it was true, then. Not that she would expect Simon to speak falsehoods under any circumstances, but it was something else to have it spoken aloud. Something else entirely to have it done so by an elf.

"Their shame..." she repeated, "does that mean they know they did wrong by removing him? And until recently? Is it not forbidden now?" The unspoken question: why is his name not shouted from the rooftops, if it is not heresy to do so.