Isshiri made a face. "Same reason I got stabbed. Politics." Though, to be fair, his getting stabbed actually had nothing to do with Mother--well, except for the part that she'd probably been pulling strings to get Uncle King to declare war for years, and whether she'd deliberately meant it to be him or not, that was why he'd been sent to Feredar, and brought the information which had led to the declaration, which had led to the backlash, which had led to him bleeding on the floor.