" Is your oath still binding?” Crow asked cautiously.

“He betrayed me,” Anuvadaka said. “You cannot keep faith with the faithless.”

“Then will you help us find him?”

“I must, mustn’t I?” said Anuvadaka with another of his lopsided half-sad smiles. “Since it is my fault that he is still out there to be found. "

― Katherine Addison , The Angel of the Crows