[To Harith al-Qadim]

[Empress of Neon]

"Dear Harith,

It should be illegal for anyone to be selling others in the way Sol Auk did. I hope to hear a stance being taken against it in the Citadel's assemblies.

You were compassionate and wise to release Mirit. More than a few refugees in Ephia's Well have ill memory of the sibilant scourge who enslaved our ancestors.

I'm among them.

It's an evil that will only destroy the relationship of the Sultan and the people.

My praise and prayers to you tonight.

~ I.M.M

P.S Slavery and conscription are lined by who benefits from the arrangement. It became the former the moment dinars started fattening the purse of that roiling mass of fat and vile."