Darion didn't answer immediately.
He looked at Aldric across the table and thought about the question.
Why bring him here instead of killing him back at Valdenmoor. It was a reasonable question from a man who had just watched his barracks burn and his guards torn apart and was trying to understand what kind of situation he was in.
The answer was simple enough.
Dead kings were problems. Dead kings had successors, advisors, officers who survived and inherited the situation and had every reason to be angrier about it than the original king had been.
Although Darion had eliminated the advisors and head of the Valdenmoor knights his knights brought to him. How could he be sure that was all of them.
What was the possibility that he didn't have a son somewhere in another kingdom or a relative or some Heir to the Valdenmoor throne.
Or what if some of his council men managed to escape?
