Sleat Puns

If not is there a better dragon coming up ahead?

Okay so from what I understand. The footman who come after kvothe in the first book have been after him since Tarbean, why does Sleat know so much about them. I’m pretty sure he basically says that he put someone in contact with those men. Maybe I’m looking into way to much. Just wish I understood more

Sleat and Auri?!? Is Kvothe aware?

On one of my numerous re-reads, I noticed something Sleat admitted to Kvothe. I will include everything.

Kvothe and Sleat’s conversation:

>“I heard you managed to sell several vials of Regim Ignaul Neratum last term. After the fire in Kilvin’s shop, where all of it was supposedly destroyed.”

>Sleat nodded, his expression giving away nothing.

>“I heard you arranged to get a message to Veyane’s father in Emlin despite the fact that there was a siege going on.”

>Another nod.

>“You got a young prostitute working in Buttons a set of documents proving she was a distant bloodline cousin of the Baronet Gamre, allowing her to marry a certain young gentleman with minimal fuss.”

>Sleat smiled. “I was proud of that one.”

Oh really? Proud of it. Yes, at first it seems like quite a good deed. But whose identity did he have to steal? Could it have been Auri’s?

>“When you were an E’lir,” I continued. “You were suspended for two terms on charges of Wrongful Apprehension. Two years later, you were fined and suspended again for Misuse of University Equipment in the Crucible. I’ve heard Jamison knows the sort of business you do, but he’s paid to turn a blind eye. I don’t believe the last one, by the way.”

>“Fair enough,” he said easily. “Neither do I.”

>“Despite your extensive activities, you’ve only been brought up against the iron law once,” I continued. “Transport of Contraband Substances, wasn’t it?”

>Sleat rolled his eyes. “You know the damnedest thing? I was actually innocent of that one. Heffron’s boys paid off a constable to fake some evidence. The charges were withdrawn after only two days.” He scowled. “Not that the masters cared. All they gave a damn about was that I was out there besmirching the University’s good name.” His tone was bitter. “My tuition tripled after that.”

>I decided to push matters a bit. “Several months ago you poisoned a young earl’s daughter with Venitasin and only gave her the antidote after she signed over the largest of the fiefdoms she stood to inherit. Then you staged it to look like she’d lost it playing a game of high-stakes faro.”

Could this be Auri? A highborn noble bullied into signing over everything she had and still possibly suffering side effects from some drug she was given?

>He raised an eyebrow at this. “Do they say why?”

Ah ha! So he thinks that he had a good reason? Interesting.

>“No,” I sa