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Your Excellency,

What follows would have deserved, in my opinion, that my well-beloved Karan takes the reed pen himself. But then again, I guess diplomats have to be useful for something...

During the closed session that concluded the last Chamber of the Nobles, the results of the investigation launched following the kidnapping of the Filirae Aylia were communicated to the assembly: ser Pebre di Ciosi, the proven culprit of the abduction in question, was last seen in the Heretic's Hovel. The Court suspects that he is trying to reach the Lakes to escape the justice of the Kingdom, and Nya Karan immediately posted a wanted notice in all the towns of the Forest, a copy of which you will find below.

Now, a short time ago, while I was talking with Filira Frerini about private matters, we were joined in Avalae by Nair Eolinius, ambassador of Your Excellency to the Theocracy, who told us about the recent irruption in Fairhaven, in Nair Liffan's establishment, of a particularly arrogant Matis, proclaiming his contempt for Trykers! The description that Nair Eolinius gave us of the behavior of this man immediately put us on the alert: ser Di Ciosi has already, before the villainous kidnapping mentioned above, been known for his jinovist opinions, his prejudices typical of the followers of The True Sap of which he is most certainly one. And, indeed, Ser Eolinius, said us he was recognizing more or less the features of the individual in the portrait illustrating the wanted notice that we showed him then.

Therefore, I come today to request from Your Excellency, in the name of His Majesty, the authorization for the Matis troops to enter Aeden Aqueous to hunt down this scoundrel.

As, however, I know full well that such authorization cannot be granted by Your Excellency at once (democracy has its requirements and the Nair Commander of Bai Trykali will, at the very least, have to be notified), please know that I am at Your Excellency's disposal to make the official request at the next Taliari Assembly. I add that this will be with confidence: by not lynching ser Pebre as soon as he publicly uttered his insults at Nair Liffan's, the people of the Lakes have proven, once again, their benevolence.

Seelagan, Your Excellency.
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Nilstilar Thorec
Ambassador b'Yem Lornair'Karan be Naw Trykoth Federation

Your Majesty,

It was with reluctance that I decided a few days ago to submit Your request to Her Excellency Ailan Mac'Kean. Namely, to authorize Matis troops to enter Aeden Aqueous in search of Pebre Di Ciosi.

Reluctance, because Your will to introduce such a request was brought to my attention by an unusual way, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, because the said request appeared to me, given the bad memories left to the people of the Lakes by the last such "entering", to be audacious... not to say provocative. In fact, I wondered for some time if this matter was not a plot to discredit me, both in the Kingdom and in the Lakes. Your Majesty can see from this that no one, even a seasoned diplomat, is immune to a conspiratorial delusion.

It is therefore to get out of this nascent delusion that I took the liberty, in formulating the aforementioned request to Ailan Mac'Kean, of suggesting to her to make it public, i. e. to call an Assembly of the Taliari destined to rule on the follow-up to be given to it, an Assembly in front of which I declared myself ready to intervene. This was done. And although the minutes of the debates of the said Assembly is to be soon be made public too, I come here to give you their conclusion: the request of the Kingdom was rejected by the Assembly, but the latter unanimously adopted the following motion: "The Federal Army will capture Pebre di Ciosi, whom the Federation will then put on trial for advocating slavery. Following which we will hand him over to the Royal Army at the Tryker-Matis border."

In conclusion, I am, of course, at your Majesty's disposal to share with the Chamber of the Nobles the one and only Matis "point of view" on the said debates (that day, I was indeed, alas, the only Subject of the Kingdom to follow them).
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Nilstilar Thorec
Ambassador of Your Majesty to the Federation of Naw Trykoth