He let the key tumble from his hand, except not really, it hung suspended from a slim chain, hooked around his finger as it swung gently. He smiled at her statement. In his mind there was no such thing as 'wrong' hands. Every hand it passed through helped his cause. As for 'dangerous' hands... well they tended to take the key by force. And they key didn't like to be taken that way. In fact terrible things happened to befall those who did. A lovely little trick ingrained into it.

"Why?" he chuckled, "To create a legend of course."

And create a legend he did. One that scarcely a person across the hundred kingdoms hadn't heard of. While that much was true and a desired result it wasn't exactly a completely honest answer to her question. There was a bigger reason.