Lakshmi is one reason why the rebels are better organized these days. And she delivers a disturbing message to Galahad and his Order: “We fight the same evil.” The United India Company, she claims, is spreading the very scourge that the Knighthood has sworn to fight. Unsettling evidence can be found at the company’s docks in Blackwall Yard. She offers to take him there.
Galahad is skeptical, but agrees to see this evidence. Yet he wants The Order left out of it. So he removes his Knight’s collar and tunic before setting out.