>>6048279“I can’t say if he’s the reason the King found out though. I’ve written my reports solely to the Lord Inquisitor ever since my return from the Wastes, who I might mention is a much better boss, but Lord Beneger and he are the only two people who should know about my Stranger status. Though I can’t account for people who figured me out,” He gestures to Marie, “I’m sure there’s plenty of rumors like that or people that might have eavesdropped on me or read the letters I sent to the boss.”
“So our search is narrowed down to two suspects with a slight possibility it could be quite literally anyone else?” You say.
“Got it in one, princess.”
“But why? What motives would they have?”
“I really can’t say much for the Lord Inquisitor, half the time he seems like just a normal old guy the other half he speaks in riddles. As for the other,” He shrugs, “However what I can say is that you joining the Inquisition set the Lindan side of the organization on fire for a while. Everyone wanted to be the one assigned as your mentor. Some wanted you to serve as nothing more than nice PR, that means public relations, while others actually wanted to use your skills, then some just wanted to boost themselves up by having a royal contact.”
“And every single one of them has their own motives that may or may not align with the motives of others?”
He nods, “Biggest factions at present are,” he pauses for a moment before continuing, “Warhammer reference but you can call them the Puritans and Radicals. The Puritans simply want Strangers dead and gone while the Radicals are more in favor of using them, using us,” He again gestures to Marie and then himself, “To help the Inquisition as much as we can.”
“And should the princess of the kingdom you’re currently operating in opening join one side of this debate then it would be quite a victory. I assume the radicals are happy currently?”
“They shouldn’t know. To end the debate of your placement under who, seemingly the traditionalist Inquisitor Silas was going to be your mentor, the Lord Inquisitor, a neutral party, made the decision the elusive, mysterious, and very cool, Inquisitor Asher was assigned as your mentor while he was still on a hunt.”
“And what were your thoughts on this?”
“I wanted nothing to do with you,” He manages to say that so fast, and with such a straight face you’re half tempted to reach over and slap him again. “W-wait you don’t need to put that scary look on your face!” He says with mock raised hands, “I’ve quite enjoyed working with you but at the time I didn’t want to get roped into politics. I’m the kinda guy happy to just do my job and let the world pass me by. But still, it came as a shock to a lot of people, and we left the capital before any of that could boil over yet.”
