"What the hell have you done, you greedy bastard?!" The army head shouted into his communication artifact.
"Nothing. I've been framed, clear as day." Broker responded tiredly.
An envoy from Alastair, the Greenvale Duke, arrived mere moments ago, and the mediator, the one who had the single strongest voice in the Vesper Consortium, immediately initiated a call with the other circle members.
It was an emergency of magnitudes never before felt.
"Do you have proof?" The logistics head asked; he spited Broker on a deep level, so he was pretty happy with the new developments.
"Proof?!" Broker shouted; his patience was thinning at a rapid pace. "If I'm innocent, how can I prove anything? Do you want to interrogate my tens of thousands of subordinates to ensure I didn't order the kidnapping of the freaking Greenvale twins?! Why would I ever do that in the first place?! Do you think me to be retarded?"