because apparently it is totally normal to think that someone chosen by a magical mindreading white horse to do good is actually going to assassinate the king

Yeah, I gotta say, that was the bit where I had to turn the book around a few times just in case I was accidentally reading upside down or something. I mean, isn't this the world where Everyone Believes Companions? Isn't that, you know, kind of how it works?

It was the best friends that made me throw the book across the room, though.