by Carnath-Emory » Tue Dec 10, 2013 5:38 am
Glenn Burnie
There come days that I read back through your letters. In referense, in remembrence. I read those which they kept from me when I was not my self (not realising, I think, for they hid my room entire), of which there are six and eighty and more yet, none of them ever sent to their intendeds. The diference has so little to do with langwidge.
There is no knowing what Calomel might have explained to you during your time from us, or even the degree to which he is informed. Much of what follows may be of little use to you, indeed I hope that it is all unecessary.
The Council
Which presently numbers we three, being Treadwell Berdini and myself.
Treadwell fills this position competuntly as he has in the past. His church such as it is has turned itself to answering the present famine with the supply of stock from its own storehouses, in general his is a stablising influence, which is kind to a Myrken very much in need of the stable and trustworthy. He has always been that.
Although I haf recently and deliberatly offended Berdini, he does not proof an obstruction. Of D'anclaude and Vanidor I cannot say; our conflagratory friend however keeps to his home and to his own company, in light of recent events you understand the necessity.
Agnieszka travels very soon to Thessilane, in pursuit of Aleksei from whom we haf not had word whatsoever in recent months. There is no keeping her from this I suspect, and I am not certain that it is right to try. In her place, as you know, I would and haf done the same. Still, I am not beyond the hypocrisy of This is but one part of her reasoning, of the rest I wil perhaps write later.
The Constabulary
During recent events there was created a 'Civil Constabulary', its purpose the enforcement of those laws proclaimed by the then-Vice-Governor. Its acomplishments are ilustrative.
The Civil's prime advantage was the element of surprise and to a lesser degree the presence of instiutional suport. Ill-trained, outnumbered and poorly managed, it could not haf prevailed for long even had we not aggressively re-taken Myrken streets from its grasp. Surprise was key; time was required for the Constabulary to distinguish between Civil agents and its own, time was required for the Myrken population to trust that what acusted them upon the street was not a Constabulary transformed but a secondary splinter organisation. At this point Support played a role, the Constabulary suspecting (correctly) the presense of agents hidden amongst their number and therefore practising particular caution, it being believed by then that the openly rebellious would suffer immediate sanctions.
I did not mean to write a history. It is simply We continue You must un
I would say to your gu
Your guard described what you had built as an equation. Balancing forces, puzle pieces fit seemlessly together to form a functioning whole. Improboble mathematics. Of all the Were one piece to slip and fail, he said, so too would the whole. I disl This was and remains true: that what you haf built, improboble though it might be, you haf built soundly. Each body suffered superfissal damage. Each body prevailed despite. Had we wholly lost any one of these ---- the Constabulary, the Militia, the Inquisitory ---- Myrken would not haf fallen to the Civil bodies. It would haf fallen into chaos and violence, to be resolved months later and at an enormous cost of both lives and trust, the old pattern of years of centuries repeated yet once more.
It did not.
Your numbers held.
-Ariane