The game’s a-fin
There has been a burst of activity in Abyssia. We now know why Krill was absent from Nikolao’s audience with the Emperor. And we know a lot of confusing and contradictory things about Princess Ireth.
Do I think she had Nikolao poisoned? I keep wavering. She is the obvious suspect, but I can’t figure why she’d give herself away to Isleen. Even just to gloat.
I do keep wondering if the plan miscarried. The other epithet Ireth laid on Tamasi—I most cleverly threw mud all over the place with Tamasi’s little homily in order to keep from having to talk about it—indicates that Ireth, whether she is pro-war or pro-peace, is most definitely anti-marriage. Perhaps they really did poison the wrong mer. (Which, if true, is hysterically funny, because Tamasi said as much to Nikolao when it happened, in all innocence and unknowing, meaning something altogether different. I love it when games do that!)
Tamasi being Tamasi, she didn’t lay all her cards on the table. With some people she might have, but not Nikolao. For now, suffice to say she really does want to know how Ireth comes by her knowledge, and how far that knowledge extends.
I have figured out how I’m going to handle the possibility that the Empire is money-grubbing, marrying Tamasi into the family in order to grab her personal fortune. My plan is, if I do say so myself, beautifully devious, in the same way Shirley’s lawsuit was. (And it’s even another legal trick. I’ve absolutely positively been hanging around the sharks too much.) Stay tuned…
Update: Hm. On a second reading, I think I may have Ireth all wrong. Her message to Tamasi looks suspiciously like a warning to sit up and take an active interest. (A warning Tamasi doesn’t need, thank you, but nonetheless.) Whatever game she’s playing, it’s multi-layered… and I am starting to think she’s playing it against Rilagan.
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