01-17-2018, 05:03 PM
Renard was after the key because his royal relatives were doing a carrot and stick on him: bring us the key and be welcomed back into the family, don't bring us the key and die. But by the time he got his hands on they key he had concluded that his relatives couldn't be trusted not to kill him anyway and his best use of the key was to win Nick over by giving it back.