[This is more than he is comfortable discussing out loud, with the threat of Malicant so near, and he switches hurriedly to private.]

He is a showman of the highest order: I do not think He would have cut her throat like a common robber. But I like to think of the implications even less: presumably, then, there is someone who does not even require His help to kill the Emperor, and had sufficient reason to do so. We do not need two enemies of that caliber.