[ His smile turns a little more melancholy as he wraps his arm around Bastien. ]

Almost exclusively my own countrymen. Searching for sedition, ferreting out treason. There are many hostile to the Queen - to any Queen, to this Queen - and many hungry for power...The peculiar structures down South mean that we have fewer schemers, but the schemers we do have can get rather a lot further. So: yes. My enemies and my friends, my kith and my kin.