Do You Have a Dagger?

Cevarian admits to holding Thekla romantically. He does not say we did anything else, but he does very explicitly say I had held Thekla in this way. There's another important line when he grabs her. She says, I hate men who grabbed me and covered my face with kisses. So I'm pretty forward of her. We've got a bunch of flirt going on right here. And you can also argue by potentially wounding these horses, destabilizes them for what is to come next.