Letter to Xanthe

The writer, a vrakhir of whom gossip has surely reached her, believes her hand in Brencis's seizure of Vale Sangora was expedience, not belief — an expedience ending together with the chaos he wrought.

Work with him, and in due course he will ensure her share in the knyaz's schemes is forgotten. He waits in Svartrau, southwest of the Cathedral, to speak in person.