I know! And with me next to him, naked, pretending to be interested in this bizarre attempt at pillow talk. Some people never learn how to use their tongues.
At least it wasn't for long. I'd poisoned his wine at the party; which coincidentally answers your first question.
Oh, the usual, probably. Cheated a business partner, got in someone's way, insulted another noble's wife; who knows? I didn't really ask in those days, and it's been so long I can hardly remember the first ones.
I used to. I was a part of my homeland's most prestigious assassin's guild. How I left it is a very long story, and I ask a good deal more questions these days.