Keomora wrote:"I am not stupid Markus... I know why Vincent is really here. Very well that was to be expected but really if we want to get anything done I need that information. Specifically if you still have control of your... government."
"Fine, we may as well get this over with. The ministry of truth was our solution to get you to stop bitching, pardon my language, about the Legion. I tell you right now from the bottom of my heart, I would shoot the bastard that leads them. He is a disgrace to Imperials.
But someone, specifically the leader of the ministry, has been taking control. I don't know who. We specifically made sure the leader was unknown to me so he may do what was best. But he..." He began to sob.
"Angela, I am so sorry I did not tell you before, but he, whoever he is, sent me a letter. It was long and droning on about an ideology, but the main message was we have a sniper aiming at your wife at all times, and we know about the baby."
Angela clearly shocked, stared at him. Then she stood up and hugged him. "It is ok, you should have told me. But I forgive you."
Still sobbing and not even bothering to look at Katherine, he told more. "Mr. Pax has a price on his head because he out of his own initiative did a mathmatical formula. It ended up telling him that a massive war was coming, a leader would rise to what seemed like an absolute victory, but he would all of a sudden fail due to a last effort, and the old leaders would be reestablished. An informant at his college saw this. I wish for him to leave. He does not want to, but I want him to."