We've spoken, Covenant, when I was Ashtani, when I was Mhaldorian, and
now that I am Tyrannus. You know me to be reasonable. There is no need
to prolong this. Laws were broken, the criminals are punished. Lupar
looms closer. Ik Oakstone wishes to dictate Mhaldor's laws, Oakstone
should elect themselves a Viceroy. Till then, I make the laws, with the
aid and counsel of our Viceroys. This is not about Good, or Evil, or
whose ass is badder than whose. This is, pure and simple, a matter of
the law. And the law has been observed. I hope that you will allow this
water to pass under the bridge and we can all go back to quietly hating
one another.

Or, I can have the slaves mix up some tar and we can pave a new highway
through the Aureliana.

I knew I should have taken that left turn at Eleusis!
Yig

Penned by my hand on the 20th of Valnuary, in the year 334 AF.