The grip Bernard had on her hand was enough to settle her decision.
"Hold, Weiss." Eloise said. If she did not say anything now, if she did not stick out her tongue and bite it off to swallow her pride, she could lose a huge opportunity. And Bernard...How long would it be until that look in his eyes would disappear? That pain, that betrayal so deep she herself could not empathize with.
She smiled towards her husband, wanting him to trust her like he had. She had this. She could make it all better. Eloise needed his backing, she needed him to believe her. While Michael had the right intentions, by all things known Murray was a mage who had used magic. But there were contradictions in his character. She could fall on that. "This is a man who has given up. They are words from the all ready dead. Please pray tell that I am not the only one to notice this?"
"Bernard," She was addressing him specifically. It was a way to make it seem like he, too, came to the same conclusion that she did. "Carwardine had stated he did not know of his magical capacities, it came to him as a shock to be accused of such taint, however since he had been it must be true."
She took her hand off his arm and gestured to the man in chains in front of her. "And yet now he speaks in absolutes. I do not believe he had an epiphany in as little as time. You are giving up, Carwardine, even though there is no evidence. You could be framed. You could very well be innocent but you find this easier."
She wasn't about to bring up the mention of possible other mages involved with attacks against the Grand Duke. It would be a backhanded slap against Michael, Eloise did not need the Mordecai to have more fuel against her. Not now. She needed Bernard before she could risk it.
