It seemed the meeting was not over. Furthermore, it seemed like he was no being questioned on the matter - as was the Prince’s right. It would require Arturo to pull from the time the Invictus was a player in Juarez - but he still remembers those dealings, they were not lost yet.
”Correct me if I am wrong, as I am not a student of the First Estate,”
“As an act of retribution there tends to be three provocations. Mortals...which I have little interaction with at this point, property...of which I have yet to invest in…”
A pause. The Lord was spending no energy on wasted movement, he was like a corpse in a chair - corpsier than usual that it.
”And humiliation was the last I believe. It was the tenant that my Sire taught us was the most important. Thus when I was told not to speak when questioned by an officer of your Court, and then had prestation under my name offered with no such permission granted, that is the tenant I leaned on.”
“I assume that offering boons you do not own, and attempting to control who one can and cannot speak too is something you do not find offense with.”
“This was clearly a misguided attempt by myself to avoid a more long term quarrel by giving it some finality.”
To avoid a vendetta if you will.