Imperial Diet VI

[Tamur]

*Fritz von Kastilien enters the Diet, waits for silence, and approaches the floor*

Friends, I bring news. Or, I bring rumour to be more exact.

I have met with Lothar's accuser. Or met with someone who speaks for him. There was an unfortunate use of masks and disguised voices, which irritates me to no end.

*Fritz shouts out while wildly looking about the chamber* If you want to bring forward damning evidence, do it now, coward!

*Fritz' nostrils flare, he shakes his head and composes himself*

Be that as it may, Lothar's accuser has told me that he has evidence of two things. First, that Lothar made an agreement with the leaders of the Assassins' Guild to do away with Siegfried. Second, that the man hired to lead the killers was none other than the mysteriously disappeared Tancred von Tyrrolia.

*Fritz makes a wide grin and laughs derisively*

I suggest that this Diet withhold judgment on such pronouncements until Hans' investigation has run its course. I have tasked two of my staff to perform their own inquiry into these charges.

It may be that these investigations prove some or part of this. On the other hand, it may that these are specious lies concocted by some ambitious member of this assembly who wishes to gain political advantage over the house of Bavaria. If it is the last...

*Fritz pauses and sweeps the Franconian bench without resting on anyone particularly*

...I pity the man who has done such a despicable thing.