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- Interception
- 'Finding ways to read official letters might be the most obvious way to spy on the Khan...'
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- Cryptic clues
- 'Note: scribes are not easily bribed, but if I slip into the clerk's office late at night, there is usually something to read... and I can replace the seals there and then...'
- I made many nocturnal trips to the offices. People tended to ignore me. I learned of the Empire's plans to invade the lands of the Bulgars and the Saracens, and its trade with India and the Persian people it subjugated.
- I learned more of the threat posed by the Khan's own family, too. He and his brothers' children were locked in strife. The struggle for power over the Mongol Empire had his family poisoning and stabbing each other, and he feared that one of his nephews could arrive from Cathay with an army at any time, intent on revenge for seizing power in the way he did.
- Find the rest of the story at: http://silvertree.storynexus.com/
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