Though this happened it TTH I am asking this here due to the comment Jethiss made at the end of Assail. While I believe(d) that Jethiss was Spinnock not Rake, one thing always bugged me from TTH which i don't remember ever being explained.
Chapter 2 TTH
Quote
"You won again, Lord. But it was close."
At first I thought maybe Rake was for some reason playing the game (Kef Tanar) through/via Spinnock for some obscure reason, yet it was never addressed again and later conversations seem to infer this is not the case. So what does the above mean? it seems very out of character for Rake to take credit/consider trivial victories of unimportant games as a personal achievement.
Maybe I'm thinking too much into this but i did consider whether these were very subtle clues and everything else was a deliberate misdirection. Any thoughts would be appreciated, thanks.