TCES - 'All is settled. Almost.'

'All is settled. Almost.'
'The Cloaked Emissary plans to buy Karakorum? I must speak to him again...'

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'This is for love.'
'The Princess cannot live and love her sculptor, unless her father is relieved of his empire,' he told me. 'If he isn't, he'll have to execute the Sculptor sooner or later. Our offer is independent of the politics of nations... it is in your best interests to encourage him to accept.'

He didn't care to tell me whether he had my best interests at heart, or his own...

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