In any city in the world, a few coins could provide proper lubrication to slide letters to their intended destination, no matter who may be sending them, no matter who may receive them.
Lady Follox (Meeda, this being the one thing that I will do that you have asked),
I wonder how best to start this. There are so many different routes we could take. Shall I suggest one? How about that. Let's.
I could seem casual. You could knowingly tease information out of me. You could see this letter in and of itself as a sign of suspicion realized and act accordingly. Leverage. Your whole life is leverage. This looks like leverage. It could be the most lucrative sort. You use it. You build slightly more power, gain slightly more influence, have slightly more money, or it turns out you were wrong and lose a resource and annoy a potential ally. Or you're right and it does not work out well for you anyway, but I scant think you the sort of imagine that sort of scenario.
It's dull and so much effort. It's unimaginative. Rote. Just the way the world works. Do you know why I am so incorruptible? Because I tired of 'just the way the world works.' It's not that I am a highly moral defender of justice. It's not that I'm playing some sort of long game. It's that I'm playing no game at all. If you don't move the pieces, it's not that you can never lose. It's that no one else can ever win. You're just sitting there taking up the board. It's a victory in and of itself, the most irritating victory in the world. That appeals. That's how I've been winning, by not playing games at all.
You like games, though. Games of influence. Games of chance. Games of violence.
I've turned a blind eye up until now. You have not. Yet I am not obviously not blind. Do you ask why? Or do you just think me a fool like so many other fools who underestimate or overexert?
I would let you name the game, save for one rule. Nothing given. Nothing asked for. Nothing borrowed. Nothing owed. Can you even imagine a game rules with such as those? Nothing dull and nothing rote.
Burnie