To Lt. Colmes,

[caesaropapist]

Lieutenant,

That vermin had the gall to come to my office and flaunt her rumor-mongering.
I am disappointed that this matter has not been resolved.
When I came to this office, I had utmost respect and faith in you.
But you allowed Argent to escape. You wasted time until Gedwyr and Zalthar were gone.
You've opted to pick at crumbs and make deals that only undermine the future.

And now you may well have destroyed our single trump card over the enemy with loose lips.

What am I to think, Lieutenant?
Are nuisance suits and half-assed attempts to unseat Mirielle all we'll ever get out of you?
I believe you can and ought to have been able to do far more than what you've accomplished.

What, exactly, is the demon that has possessed you these long three months?
For a time, I considered flying into a rage and throwing things at you - but the truth is, you were my first and only supporter in this city, something I have done my best to honor, and I write to you instead as a deeply concerned friend.

Do you need to resign?
Do you need help?
What are you even aiming to do anymore?

Your Friend,
Komemnos

[Blue41]

Legate,

Your words, if I recall, were that you didn't trust anything that happened if you weren't in the room. So I waited on you to be around, which is something of a common issue for your tenure, before I acted. That's become something of a theme with me, admittedly. I've decided I'm sick of it. That's finished.

You had my support even when my own men first began to question your loyalties, even when it became clear that you were mostly interested in lining the pockets of your own men with the treasury's funds. Even when your own men fled in the night or abandoned you. Your Heitaroi. Your Prelate. Because I had sacrificed quite a bit to put you where you are.

That's also finished. You want a corpse to heap your 'ifs' and possibilities onto, I'll give you one. It will be the last thing I give you.

Enjoy what's left of your term.

Lt. R. Colmes

[caesaropapist]

Colmes,

The only thing you 'sacrificed' is a contract you led me into and then immediately double-crossed. I have never forgotten that you made me a liar. Nor do I care overmuch for you to play a teary-eyed victim and start rambling about elections and a duty to supplement where I have been failed repeatedly.

I am here asking you what you need to get your job done.
I am reminding you that I have spent three months waiting to handwave whatever you do, only for a months-too-late apprehension of an apprentice Brooker.

If you want to hang yourself and be done with it otherwise - do so.
Otherwise, get rid of that wretch and use these last weeks to effect.

-KMNOS.