The Blog of Roon

So Nacreon is having an extremely disturbing conversation with his rival General Krill, who got into House Amyriand disguised as a pilgrim.

Krill thinks that Tamasi’s people are corrupting the Emperor and his family. Naturally he is suspicious of Tamasi herself. I keep waiting for him to demand that Nacreon kill his daughter-in-law, though thus far Nacreon has allayed enough of his suspicions that he has not felt the need to do so.

I can’t resist tiny creepy moments, when I’ve enough out-of-character knowledge to engineer them. So I had one of the servants mention the “pilgrim’s” presence in the household, and make the perfectly straightforward request to be permitted to feed and house him.

Tamasi, who despite her fearsome reputation is genuinely a decent sort of person, immediately agreed, saying, “Whatever he asks for he may have,” all unconscious that the pilgrim had motive to ask for some extremely unsavory things…

Tiny creepy moments. A good use of out-of-character knowledge.

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