When the slave trader Severan Manius travels from Carastes to Perivantium for the summer, he must be persuaded to take the less friendly road which passes through Marothius rather than the road by Neromenian and the coast.

The specifics of how this is to be accomplished are inconveniently missing from the orders passed along in secret, bent as they are into lopsided shape in order to safely find their way to Leander for unpuzzling. Instead, the demand (there is no element of the language which suggests this thing to be optional, and neither it is the first instance of such instruction) comes paired with a pleasantly abstract consolation: once Manius has been successfully diverted and suspicion safely evaded, would Leander see his way to Minrathous? Presumably, there will be work in need of accomplishing there in the aftermath of whatever waits for Severan Manius along that eastern road. Presumably, this work will require a man of Leander's particular talents, or the connections he's built during his time inside Tevinter, or both.

Or at the very least, there in Minrathous waits an eluvian—a secret at the Imperium's heart as quiet and dangerous as any rot which might ordinarily effect such an organ.

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