Generating rumors is one thing even the most inept armed force does exceedingly well. - Glen Cook

Krage eyed us from a face of stone. “I help you with something, Inquisitor?”
“Probably not. You’d lie to me if the truth would save your soul, you bloodsucker.”
“Flattery will get you nowhere. What do you want, you parasite?”
Tough boy, this Krage. Struck from the same mold as Bullock, but he had drifted into a socially less honored profession. Not much to choose between them I thought. Priest and moneylender.

I guess you don’t need to agree on everything to be lovers.

That was not an exaggeration, that was an outright fabrication.