Nikolaos shakes his head at Theo.
"I am sorry, come again senator? May I ask by what right, divine or secular, that entitles you to Scopia? If the Emperor truly wanted to end this, he would simply take the province for himself. But no, he has decided that it should be between these two, who claim the most right to it. You sit in Markianople, far from any near the very walls of Scopia, and yet you would say you have a right to it?"
Nikolaos grunts as he shifts his position in his to small chair. "I think, instead of trying to base a sound judgment on an unsound race, we should try a different path."
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