Post by Ikoma Buretto on Feb 24, 2011 13:59:33 GMT -5
(OOC I felt a response to the Three-rivers was necessary, but posting it in the actual thread implies I'm there at the capital, and I don't wanna put this in the Lion-only board because I'd like others to read it to at their leisure and maybe even send correspondence or interact with my character over it)
The letter had arrived that morning upon the courtier's work table. Interrupting his current correspondence with his contacts among the Phoenix lay the stark truth of the matter. The Dragon had sided with the Crane over Three-Sides River's possession. The man's eyes narrowed in disgust over seeing the transcription of the announcement.
"The audacity of it." he spat, "To take our food away and say it is because our soldiers are otherwise detained? Has this.. Takezo never heard of the maxim, "An army marches on its stomach"? Now the Crane will gleefully sell our rice back to us at three times its worth, once more bleeding our already stretched coffers dry. We field the largest army in all of Rokugan, yet we will be forced to eat millet at this rate!"
He sighed and poured himself another cup of sake.
"This insult should not go ignored. Hmm. Crane gave rice to the Tonbo indeed? Perhaps then the Lion need to remind the Crane and the Dragon where the rice should really go."
The man lifted his brush and began to write.
The letter had arrived that morning upon the courtier's work table. Interrupting his current correspondence with his contacts among the Phoenix lay the stark truth of the matter. The Dragon had sided with the Crane over Three-Sides River's possession. The man's eyes narrowed in disgust over seeing the transcription of the announcement.
"The audacity of it." he spat, "To take our food away and say it is because our soldiers are otherwise detained? Has this.. Takezo never heard of the maxim, "An army marches on its stomach"? Now the Crane will gleefully sell our rice back to us at three times its worth, once more bleeding our already stretched coffers dry. We field the largest army in all of Rokugan, yet we will be forced to eat millet at this rate!"
He sighed and poured himself another cup of sake.
"This insult should not go ignored. Hmm. Crane gave rice to the Tonbo indeed? Perhaps then the Lion need to remind the Crane and the Dragon where the rice should really go."
The man lifted his brush and began to write.
