Akatha Sunderpoint
My family was exiled from Point Sunder for "heresy", I grew up in Kamtahar, the son of a seamstress, my father had passed on the trek to the city. Among the Kamtahari, I was always unusually big and strong, no one really understood why until the ban was rescinded, and I visited my distant cousins Burano Barracuda and Namor-Sochi-Sa. Barracuda'd been forcibly adopted into the Sochi family of Point Sunder, and the reason for that was his line of descent from the Eternal Uncle. Now our meetings are loud and boisterous, filled with drink, fishing and hunts of large, powerful creatures, among our distant cousin the Sundari. He'd later been retroactively re-integrated with the Burano clan, driving a potential wedge between his family and his wife's.
"I hear you killed my mother..."
"I am Talonmaster Adelon, I would speak with Taimyo Akatha Sunderpoint."
"I am Taimyo Sunderpoint."
"Can we step into your office, I have a few questions."
"Since when does a Talonmaster ask questions of a Taimyo?"
"When the Talonmaster holds a letter from the Rani-Satrap ordering him to... And for the record, you're still Taimyo-select, you've not been confirmed yet..."
"Surely, just a formality..."
"That's a bit above my paygrade, we know Prikata Fang-Fall named all of you to the title, but the Rani-Satrap hasn't blessed you with the titles using the correct legal forms yet... I imagine this investigation is part of the reason."
"What am I being investigated for?"
"We have evidence of foreign influence, treasonous foreign influence, and we've narrowed it to four officers, all with supervision capabilities on the two Heizei supervising Wyldfire and Wyldwind."
"This is preposterous, I am loyal."
"Then you won't mind answering a few innocuous questions..."
"Sure, what about?"
"We're interested in foreign influence and foreign contacts..."
"I met a foreign ambassador at the Rani-Satrap's... request." He had wanted to say orders, but knew this had been a politely phrased request...
"I'm aware of that vacation trip with the ambassadors."
"That was our introduction to the wider world, we had no idea what Lookshy and Great Forks were..."
"Great forks has been making overtures, lately... The Rani-satrap had to inform them their interpretation was not in accordance with the Pure Way."
Someone knocked at the door.
"Who's there?"
"It's me, Incia Sir."
"Oh?"
"My aide and adjutant, keeping my command sharp."
"And an ancillary part of this investigation, and your rumoured lover, do let her in, I have questions for her once we're done here."
Sunderpoint's mouth appeared to hit the floor, for a moment. Akatha god-blooded seldom were that disrespected to their faces.
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