[ Exasperated sigh, like Alfie is being unreasonable. ] There's an empire of a church. They've collected every province together except for the one that belongs to the king I work for, so they're planning on taking it by force. They want me dead, which means they obviously aren't willing to pay me, so I work for the king.

Again. Against my better judgement. Apparently working in a partnership means I have to make decisions like this in order to make enough to eat. [ Or because he actually wants Hadrian to stick around, but whatever. ]