So a curse upon my men had made them monsters be... Simply being in my party had condemned them for their deeds. "Why did you hex them, witch, and think to spare me? It seems foolish in your place to spare a helpless enemy. You could have murdered me instead, and spared me all this speech."
She replied after a laugh, filled with sadistic glee: "Oh, I wanted to include you, on that we both agree, for you and princess both can challenge my royalty. But it seems you have a ward that I did not foresee; the sins within your heart, even small in their degree, should have shown upon your skin, like your men, accordingly."
The sins within my heart... I'm no saint, and I could see Rumpelstiltskin saved my life when he took the heart from me.