Endgames (The Imager Portfolio) by Modesitt Jr. L. E

Author:Modesitt, Jr., L. E.
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781250293640
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates
Published: 2019-02-04T22:00:00+00:00

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Charyn was headed to exercise with the guards on Vendrei morning when Maertyl gestured to him. Charyn immediately wondered what had gone wrong and where. “Yes, Guard Captain?”

“It’s nothing to do with the Guard, Your Grace. One of the Civic Patrol squad leaders I know stopped by just a little bit ago. Last night, some patrollers ran into some men starting a warehouse fire. The men shot the three patrollers. Two of them died, and then the warehouse exploded. The men got away. The Factors’ Council started issuing rifles to the patrollers this morning.”

“Do you know whose warehouse?”

“A factor named Saratyn. He deals in glassware. That’s all I know.”

“Thank you. I appreciate the information very much.”

All through the exercises, Charyn wondered how Eshmael would react … and how quickly. He also worried about civic patrollers with rifles.

As was more often the case than not, after exercising, washing up, and dressing, he ate breakfast alone, then made his way to his study. Wyllum wasn’t there yet, but he’d left the newssheets for Charyn, suggesting that he’d gotten them before his breakfast.

Veritum reported that the Rex and the councils had taken no additional action to address the acts of arson and destruction against manufactorages, leaving the responsibility completely with the Factors’ Council and the Civic Patrol. The story also noted that the Patrol had discovered tools and flammable oils in an unused stable near several manufactorages on the west side of the river, but had not discovered who had placed the materials there.

Interestingly enough, there was no mention of the Council meeting in Tableta, but Charyn had no doubts that his absence from the pages of that newssheet would be temporary.

Just after Wyllum appeared, so did Sanafryt, carrying several sheets of paper. “Your Grace?”

“Yes? Is there a problem with proclaiming the change to the Codex Legis dealing with choristers?”

“Not that kind of problem, sir. I just received this from the regional minister of justice in Solis. It’s a copy of a document that was nailed to the door of the Anomen D’Montagne some two weeks ago. Regional Minister Kafrayt sent it by courier as soon as he made the copy. It’s purportedly from the True Believers.”

Charyn managed not to sigh. “Let me read it. Just sit down.”

The document was relatively short.

Rholan the Unnamer, as the interpreter for the Nameless, intended that the lives of believers should be a constant search for meaning through their acts and deeds in order to improve their lives and the lives of others.

1. Meaning cannot be purchased through coins, whether of copper, silver, or gold. That being so, offerings made to the Nameless are of value to the Nameless, and to the giver, only so far as they enable the chorister and those under him to accomplish acts of meaning.

2. An act of meaning is one that improves the health, life, or spirit of both the giver and the recipient.

3. An act of meaning must be undertaken with no thought of personal gain in wealth, position, or stature.

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