Re: The Magnaura
*The Protoasecretes eyes Markos suspiciously.*
In the Magnaura, I command the guards, not the Basileus. This is a place for debate and diplomacy, not violence, and I will not allow the armed men of any faction to violate this sacred place. Not even the Basileus can call these guards to action if I do not permit it.
Still, it is not every day that a Senator declares himself a traitor in the midst of the Magnaura and then waits passively to be arrested. Treason itself isn't much of a crime; why all the greatest of our Roman ancestors committed a treason at some point in their lives. However, in my day traitors had enough of a spine to actually rant about injustice and how they had been slighted, before either getting themselves killed or taking their own lives. Usually some spectacular battle or melodramatic speech came first, but it was always entertaining. This new-found passivity in treason is very un-Roman. So, for this violation of the traditional Roman laws on the proper way in which a traitor is to comport himself, I hereby order that you be arrested!
Guards...
*The Protoasecretes gestures to the armed men standing at the various doorways.*
...take this man into custody and... do whatever it is he wants done with himself.
*The guards hesitate and look a bit confused, until one shrugs and moves forward to grab Markos ek Sinopis.*
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