Sly

"If Diego asks me, I'll tell him you're the best damn sleuth this place has ever seen."

Sly offers the Hero a job that can help him become a Shadow: track down a missing warder named Nek. Word around camp says Nek ran off to the New Camp, but Sly doesn't buy it, and suggests the Hero ask Fletcher, who took over Nek's corner of the arena district and was his friend. Sly is upfront that his good word depends on results: "first, you find Nek, then we talk favors."

When the Hero reports finding Nek dead, Sly reacts with shock, "bloody hell ... so I was right," and asks where the body was. He isn't satisfied without physical proof, hinting the Hero should look for an amulet, and once it's handed over he's moved, calling it a beauty and a tragedy, and thanking the Hero for being straight with him. He promises to tell Diego the Hero is the best sleuth the place has ever seen, and afterward warns the Hero not to get any ideas about the amulet.