Being that he now had a responsibility to answer Fendros' questions, Jespric too had to try to ignore his daughter's whimpers. "When I first contacted them? It was...a year back, at least. I was desperate, looking for any sort of work I could find in a tavern. The barkeeper was sort of my friend, so he tolerated it as long as I was not too disruptive. I eventually started a conversation with an Imperial. A different one from the one back in the fight; I haven't actually seen him again since then. But he was the one that put me into contact with the woman who killed herself. The bartender had vouched for me that I had been a warrior, so we made the deal. "

Jespric gave no more resistance to the questioning. He explained every important detail he could recall from his work with Vile. He explained that their primary goal was to hunt Talos worshipers, and from his experience, there was no other motive to their ambushes. They would usually captured the worshipers, but only so they could interrogate them to find more. He described some of the ambushed they carried out, who they targeted, and gave away some of the people he knew they worked with, in addition to Viper. However, the entire time, he maintained that he did not actually know the reason for why they were hunting Talos worshipers. He said that someone like the Imperial woman would have known, but the grunts like himself did not need to. It was a detail that Ahnasha quite wanted to know, but even she did not think further torture would be helpful. It seemed most likely that he genuinely did not know. 

"Okay, so I can accept that you might not have been told the reasons for doing what you were doing. But, I'm sure you can help us figure it out. Did you notice anything about your employer that might have given a clue? Did she work with the Thalmor?" Ahnasha asked. 

Jespric shook his head. "Oh, Divines no. We were not friends to the Thalmor. We might have been working for the same goal, but they have always been hostile to us. I don't think the Thalmor care at all for Vile, and I don't think they care that he wants to kill Talos worshipers too. I swear I don't know any more, but...listen, one of the other people you captured, he was a courier. He arrived just before you did, and he held off on delivering his letter until after dealing with what we thought were more Talos worshipers. It was meant for our leader, I think. The Imperial. He, um, he's a sneaky sort. He managed to get the letter out of his pocket and drop it through a gap in the wagon on our way over here. It should still be on the ground on the path we took here, unless the wind picked it up. I think he did it right when we came into view of the lake, so not too far back. Maybe that letter will help you? So, um, will we be able to go after this?"