>>FROM:@STORMBORN | >>TO:@ALL

[dorzalta]

I ask that you use caution if encountering Yhych in the courts. Or at least carry with you an anti-toxin.

[ dot dot dot . . . ]

Is anyone a weapon-maker here?



>>FROM:@STORMBORN
>>TO:@BURGERKING, @PONYTAIL, @MODERATUS, @POINTANDKICK, @DIEDHARD, @BOARING, @AEGONNER, @PERSONALSTAFF

Ignore my next message until you are alone or are able to control your reaction.

[ There will be a pause, one which seems to tick away as an eternity for her. And then: ]

I'm told Kebechet is here.

Comments

[lonelywar]

It is very possible Kebechet lies with the truth.
It is possible she is like Xici and she believes all that she says, regardless of how it might be to us or in actuality. She can tell us pieces of the truth to try to manipulate our perception of the whole.
The Regency are clever. They know that being caught in a lie would lose us as future pieces in their plots. So I am always cautious of a deeper level of deceit with them.

[Sometimes your enemies did not seek to lie to you; Ashitaka had bore the truth of his curse to Lady Eboshi, and she had immediately showed him all of her secrets, not backing down from what she sought to do to safeguard them. The Regency gives him a similar feeling; they banked so much on their seeming integrity.]

I will not lecture you on the stage we stand nor the different enemies we face. I know you have more experience in this than I do.

[The news of her hand in perhaps orchestrating what happened to Noctis twists in his gut, but — to view this with anger or with any thirst for retribution was dangerous. He knows this intrinsically.]

She may have it, if it suits all of us.
We simply must act in a way that wins us this arena here and also sets us up for victory in our overall war.