A page comes in quickly as Demetrios moves to answer Aleksios's question. The page whispers something in Demetrios's ear, but what the page says is as quiet as Demetrios's face is unreadable. After a nod, Demetrios waves the page off.

"Good Senators, as far as the man before you, I know nothing of how this at all came to be. I myself was to late to come to my Lord's aid when I heard a tussle in his office, and came in to find this man nearly dead, Helarionas's office in shambles and himself bloodied - he refused treatment for his wound, saying he had far more important matters to attend to. I then helped him take the would be assassin and secure him for proper questioning."

"When the man flatly refused to admit to anything, Helarionas moved to call the guards and have this man sent to the dungeons until he could alert you. However, it seems the man feared imprisonment, and quickly spoke of how Helarionas would fall for what he had done, and how the Tagaris family would pay their price one day for their betrayal. Helarionas then quickly, in extreme anger, killed the man, and I had to pull him off of the assassin. Even for sometime after, Helarionas was frighting to behold."

Demetrios pulled out a knife from a a wrap of cloth. It's design was a near perfect match to that of the blade that Lord Erotikos said had killed Lord Armatos.

"I believe this is why Helarionas believes that the two are related, and why his attacker is part of the group that attacked Armatos"