Ignatief


 * "Ah, Viktoriya. So much more trouble even than others of your sex, and yet so very nearly worth it still. Who was to know that Vasily, your runt of a brother-in-law, would become Minister of the Interior? And that your husband Pyotr would tell his brother it was I who had cuckolded him?
 * Those Hellions were no match for us, although I was worried the dragon brute and Jakar would not think this their fight. Their assistance was...appreciated, I must say, as I was fighting not one but 2 former colleagues. I still can't believe I didn't sink my dagger deeper into Lepa's neck when I had the chance, but I tarried too long, trying to reconcile what needed to be done with the presence of witnesses. I can still see the dagger indenting her skin, and the bead of her foul blood at its tip. The others urged me not to be a fool, but I know Lepa....she was taunting me with her surrender. Having fought them together, we are not safe until she and her fellow slattern are dead.
 * Pyotr Shuvalov's little clique will be emboldend by Vasily's elevation to Minister of the Interior. Dubov's promise of protection is welcome, but cannot be relied upon, I think; Dubov seems sound, but who can be sure? And a large territory such as Eroeth  is nigh-on impossible to police..."

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