[He doesn't look at her, he keeps his gaze down to the ground while she paces. He only looks at her as she speaks, and it takes all his self control not to laugh at what she asks of him. It's the easiest order he could have been given, something he has sworn already, though not in her memory, of course. It's almost funny, how easy it is.]

I swear it, your majesty. I am yours and yours alone, I would never betray you. I would rather suffer the greatest of tortures, I would rather die a thousand deaths than ever betray you.