`` i do not see why it should be treason , '' temeraire said , `` when their nation has no business keeping dyhern away from eroica : you might as well say moncey committed treason , because he told me you were on goliath , '' recalling with a shudder his own dark days in the breeding grounds of wales ; moncey and his fellow feral winchesters had been his only hope of himself being reunited with laurence , then .