Victor Steiner - Alice Dee

[Secret Intelligence Service]

To: Alice

Given recent events I have given the order to pull out of Kusari completely. An order that was recently ignored by one of my deputies, he will have a chance to rethink his decision while commanding a desk in Poole. Therefore, anything related to Kusari can fall upon your desk and not mine, including your communications with Ashikaga Tsudzuri, more importantly I don't believe she would contact me if she is already dealing with you, you who have already proven to be a capable Intelligence Officer in your own right.

Auxesia and Bretonia have a very complicated relationship which is currently more akin to a couple of once star crossed lovers who now despise one another but occasionally desire to return to what they had before deciding the other person is unsufferable and so. In short, they were welcomed into the Inverness system, back when it was connected to Bretonia, when the connection was severed, they declared the system their rightful property. Something the Crown took issue with as I'm sure you can imagine. The SIS did maintain an listening post in the system, Dunedin, but Auxesia ultimately destroyed it.

Caliban is currently on probation. I would appreciate it if you kept that information away from him for the time being.

Kind Regards:

V. Steiner
Director H.M S.I.S

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