The man who knelt to her speaks again, after a moment where Sevar could have spoke did she so choose.  "Grandmerchant Taravind is the patriarch of the Taravind trading-house, which deals much in slaves.  He would not, yet, call himself one of your faithful; he backs us not for the Sevarist reasoning-methods, but because he is intrigued by the possibility of a place in Hell that would appeal to him.  I can tell you more of him along the way."

The man who knelt to her speaks again, after a moment where Sevar could have spoke did she so choose.  "Grandmerchant Taravind is the patriarch of the Taravind trading-house, which deals much in slaves.  He would not, yet, call himself one of your faithful; he backs us not for the Sevarite reasoning-methods, but because he is intrigued by the possibility of a place in Hell that would appeal to him.  I can tell you more of him along the way."