We like the shadows. That's where all the power is.
~ Gail Carriger
Trust is a lot to ask of someone.
For you, it's gossip. For me, it's action.
It is a valuable thing for an intelligencer to be forgotten.
It didn't feel sporting to shoot at a crazy person, even if that person was a vampire who'd agreed to the job.
He might have lost his mind, but never his fashion sense.
Consider the necessary, analyze the consequences, clean up the mess.