crystal. you can't fire me, i quit.

[ipseite]

FORM: Crystals.
SENDER: Petrana de Cedoux.
RECIPIENT: Everyone with a crystal.
WHAT: An announcement.
WHEN: Shortly after this thread, broadly current.
WHERE: The Gallows, Kirkwall.
NOTES: Petrana was the source of the division head information leak leading to the mage strike. Not everyone was happy about it.

Inquisition.

( her voice is steady. her office is half-packed; she has not yet entirely decided where it will be most appropriate to move to. the nug, still unnamed all these months on, sleeps before the fire in an open box. how had she accumulated so many things to fill this space?

nevermind it. )

This is Madame de Cedoux. I have, since Kingsway of this year past, served this outpost in the capacity of ambassador, the head of the diplomacy division. I was honoured to have been entrusted with such work, and I remain exceptionally proud of what I and those nearest to my office accomplished in that time. To be given the opportunity as a woman out of her world was something that I did not take lightly or for granted, and I believe the experience has been invaluable to me. I may yet hope to hear my own work, one day, described so. For the time being—

It's with regret that I must inform you I will be, effective immediately, removing myself from this position to better serve the Inquisition by not becoming, in myself, a barrier to its best work. I shall, of course, continue to serve. I look forward to seeing the appointment of a successor, and I will gladly support their work and the work of my former colleagues in our shared goals. We cannot allow those goals or indeed our own principles to be waylaid by personal ill-feeling.

Thank you for your time.

Comments

[overharrowed]

As you say... it is not insignificant that the negotiations are happening at all. While I may have hoped for more, anything we can secure at all will be its own victory. I hope to bring you and others who are interested in the outcome good news, even if it's not unmixed.

[A pause, then, opting for a light tease of his own:]

But then, I have little doubt you will hear more of the details than I intend when I return, if you repeat the precise combination of wine and sympathy.

[He sees you there, madame.]

[ipseite]

( a pause. )

[ipseite]

I have great stores of both, Enchanter.

[overharrowed]

[A frank laugh, warm.]

I shall be on my guard, then. Though I am not enough of a strategist to deprive myself of your company entirely, so the advantage is clearly yours.

[ipseite]

Would you be so ungentlemanly as to rob me of it? I am but a woman; I've no title any longer, no consequence in this place. What danger could I possibly pose to you?

( like eighteen dangers

like at least eighteen dangers, some of them probably related to her list of reasons why she's harmless )

[overharrowed]

I've been accused of being many things, but ungentlemanly is a bridge too far. I will have to take my chances.

[Which is to say, he is not buying the argument of harmlessness, but he still wants to see her.]