Chapter Nine: Instigation

"Your Highness, you're incredibly well-informed," Komer could not but admire. "I indeed plan on that. My territory lacks sufficient labor; I need some help to reclaim wasteland and mine the mines. For this, I've met with Duke Tez and am now awaiting his reply. Why would Your Highness take an interest in these tedious matters?" Komer deliberately played down the complexity of the matter, also aware that his counterpart certainly knew the cold disdain and disapproval this issue received from the Great Lords, especially what reaction would Duke Philip of the Homer region, as a landowner, have to his actions?