Two hours past sunset, a letter arrives by courier for Twist .
Duchess Judex Twist,
I write to apologize but not to make an appeal.
This letter is primarily an offer to arrange a meeting with the Lady Notary to swear a blood oath that I shall not act against the Invictus of Sacramento with any information I have garnered from the covenant meetings.
I do not presume myself anything close to a threat; however, it does not escape me that my failure to sign is reasonably interpretable as a precursor to a coming betrayal. The idea that I may have, in my artlessness, misled others into that belief pains me deeply.
It is evident in hindsight that my tenure within the First Estate could be nothing but brief. There were many sensible ways to exclude me; that you opted for a method of mercy is not something I will forget.
Your lesser cousin,
Edward Heinrich