He may not be a politician but he knows his queen. She must be missing some piece of this; he thinks she would have told him Ravus was a prince, and he knows she does not wish to marry. Someone is playing her.

“Perhaps you could be lost on this trip. A fatality of this ambush.”

But — “Would you know how to disappear?”

It isn’t worth helping him escape if the man is just going to let himself wind up dead.