Searoth.


If I speak to you publicly its because your personal communications are
vile, coarse and abusive. I have also known you to be a master
dissembler since the time when, as Searoth Thetis, you would smile and
smile in public while attacking me and my family in private. Ive watched
you lie, dissemble and cheat, even in the presence of lord Arion
himself. Consequently, no interchange with you, and I hope this is the
last, will be conducted without witnesses.


We will keep the castle closed, as is our practice during a war, but why
don't you just come out and say that you believe the Saer'ac helped
Utansi use it as base? That's what your private message reveals. Why the
furtive accusations? Why not speak your mind out in public forum? Or
would doing that would reveal your actions to being nothing more than
the behaviour of a thug and villain who now has the opportunity and
power to harm a family he has always hated?


Nor have you cleared up the matter of whether my family are committing
treason by using their home. But, as you've quoted no law, I shall
assume that your announcement was nothing more than empty posturing and
carry on with my life.

Penned by my hand on the 6th of Ios, in the year 155 MA.