King Richard VI of Allia read the letter again and again. His eyes flicked from the paper, to the EIE broadcast playing on his TV, his wife had taken to watching the news a lot lately: Fortia's Defeat in Kirinyaa. They were trying to lessen damage, but the simple fact of the matter was that it was impossible to frame sixty thousand casualties in any positive light.
It was made even worse when Kassandora released a public list of names of her own fallen, honouring each and every one of them. Fortia's estimate sat at around sixty thousand, Kassandora's list had five-thousand eight hundred and forty three names. Sophistry could reframe a great many things, but this was a mountain too large to scale even for the best propagandists.
And Richard looked at his letter again: 'The White Pantheon calls for support.'
Wissel's plan could not happen soon enough.
