Legate Alexandria Sayburgh

[Moonlighter]

A wretched and generic statement, Warmaster Mirielle.

This scheme has been stewing since before I was even an Legate and brought to my own attention by Argent some months prior in his attempt to stop it from sprouting. It did not matter if he was aware of the thought, in fact. What matters is that he learned of the decision, and so swiftly after our meeting with Arslan.

He only had a few friends remaining, and even fewer who visited their tents in the night in the select few days between the final decision and our action. I do applaud the effort of deflection however. Admittedly, you are among those visitors and suspects. I suggest you take a break from your slandering of Legates, demands for dinari from Arslan by means of refused contracts, and ultimately reflect upon your own efforts in this war.

Now, more than ever, our soldiers require someone who might "lead from the front", which is clearly not your station as of late. Furthermore, they desire someone that they can trust, and after review of some of your public contracts, well.... it does look grim even in that regard.

Approving Luther to hire someone to Kill Inanna was rather foul, alongside betraying the Priory contract in elections. If the Banda Rossa cannot be trusted to a contract, perhaps they cannot be trusted to such a position in this war?

I imagine you'll figure out your decision very swiftly.

-Alexandria

Legate,

You have some sense of humor.

Do you want to know what the first thing Selsi said to me was when she found out the results of the vote for Arslan? She sought me out just to thank me for not betraying her. Unlike you. The very next thing she lamented upon was that the Legate she made deals with could not hold themselves to such compacts. But she was thankful to me for voting No anyway.

You want to know who your hare-brained decision has endangered? Beyond everyone generally, the future of the Settlement, and so on? Sister Selsi, specifically, a woman to who you owe everything. If there was no Sister Selsi, then there is no Legate Sayburgh. And you have voted to subject her to leading Azarimdokht the Golden Vizier into the Assuru not as an ally of our settlement, but as our blood enemy.

Congratulations. You've very probably killed her. I'm sure she is so proud of you.

That is without touching on the very real fact that you have also betrayed me as well. You watched me Vote No, you agreed we needed to be unanimous the night before, and also said you would vote no. At least her girlfriend dying giving Vellyn a fit of temporary madness is an excuse. What happened to you? Did someone cast a spell of Feeblemind upon you? Were you kicked by a horse in the head?

And "the kicker?" Before that election, I had a different conversation with Selsi. In which she released me from the contract you are complaining about due to the fact that the League of White used three elections over five months where they had the Banda Rossa under exclusive contract to put up unserious joke candidates with no chance of winning.

Accusing me of having Innana murdered, a woman who I had invited into my inner circle is absurd. Consider that her death has cost me everything. She was in my private quarters with you just the night before. Does anything more need to be said? It has cost me my masterpiece. It has cost me a lot of money. It has cost me a great deal.

Me doing this makes about as much sense as you voting to kill Selsi. Only I am not insane. I am probably the most rational woman in the Well. Even when I am offered the chance to do things that are mutually destructive, I do not tend to do them because I am of the firm belief that a cool head prevails and laughs the last.

I am sure you are so dedicated to the unveiling of the true motivations of this Assassin. It is good, then, that I have a letter from Rowan himself saying he was captured by the Janissaries and forced to testify against Luther (in a way that passed the blame to me, for some reason, how nice of them) in order to escape with his life. I also have it on record that a witness saw the Rowan in Janissary custody and also saw them let him go.

The actual murderer. The one who did the deed, released into Kula's Wyld to kill again.

Why would these "law enforcers" do that? Imagine my surprise when after doing this, a signed confession that blames me winds up on my desk. Amazing. I wonder who wanted Innana dead? Who had a vested interest in this Arslan thing? Who immediately tried to overrule me at the Second Battle of Arslan to fly the Eagle rather than the Heron in defiance of the orders of the Legates?

He wears green. I'm sure you know of it.

As far as threatening to remove me as the Warmaster goes: I would like to see you try it. You lack the political capital to do this. You both will not find a willing replacement before we are fully invested into Bet Nappahi, and you will not find a willing co-Legate beside you to do it.

And that would be installing a Warmaster the people do not believe in. They believe in me just fine. They follow me around like a celebrity, chirping that title at me, asking for my attention, my favor, my advice, my wisdom.

It is a shame they do not revere you, the elected Legate, in the same way.

It's also a shame you'll only have the one term. But, I suppose it is for the best, considering that yours was long enough for you to forget who put you there in the first place.

It is all so very regrettable.

Mirielle Rosseau
WARMASTER

[VanillaPudding]

Mirielle,

I am delighted to have received your letter, even if it is riddled with ignorance or lies.

First off, My deal with Selsi was to get her to Bet Nappahi. I consider it fulfilled. Her own decisions and private dealings with the golden maniac were not included in our singular agreement.

As for your second flawed point, Rowan killed Inanna and Luther hired him. Whether you approved the effort or not isn't a question for me to answer or really care about.


 Lastly, and perhaps my eyes merely deceive me, but it appears that you lack a flock of Recluta ready to die so that you can stand upon their shoulders anew and steal away their next accomplishments for yourself? In such a case, I would like to offer my own advice in exchange for that which was given to me.


 I have taken notice that the man wearing green tends to have a steady flock of loyal soldiers behind him while your ranks empty and you linger on as some glorified jester tossing her knives about in the air. Perhaps it would be wise to investigate how a stronger leader than yourself conducts himself? You see, Mirielle, all of that chirping you hear is the laughter of the audience as they gaze upon you. Even as you wrote this letter, surely you could feel the bindings of that marionettist alongside that overwhelming feeling that you are just a little puppet that can be controlled, not only with dinari, but the mere promise of it.

Do better.

-Alexandria