@DragonParadox Just material for the next interlude, but the hardest part for Tyene and crew when delivering the news to Emps is going to be trying to make the public stuff make him seem competent and placing as much of the credit in the hands of his agents as possible, and keeping the shame private, so that he can save face. This is fundamentally a problem when you need to shuffle officials around and figure out what kind of "accident" certain people need to suffer. It's all very sordid and head-ache inducing. In Viserys' court we'd torch the bastard, and Viserys thus far can eat the loss of prestige without even blinking since he's established in his power and even in his competence, and also most people just disconnect the blame for the actions of corrupt servants in the west from the head honcho, but that admittedly wouldn't be the case if the person was a relative who we personally appointed to the position. Then again we wouldn't make that appointment without being certain as to their character, so this is crow that Azure Emps has to eat. In
private.
Basically though if we can manage that, we have done him multiple solids by removing some mutual enemies and shored up his power and legitimacy some in one move.
It probably rankles a bit that our mere agents have done so much for him and show no signs of slowing down, but it's probably even stranger that the odd foreigners are navigating court politics and intrigue so well that he can't really afford to alienate them either, even as a move to gain distance from them (because they've been covering their tracks too well and proving indispensable).
@DragonParadox, I hope we get to keep the Wind Yai when this is all done.
