You see, I have previously granted my permission for negotiations to be held through intermediaries from our respective Councils, but I am continuously given reasons to reconsider this extended courtesy.

Indeed, you may even be surprised to know that those are terms that were explicitly written by myself, until you have shown your incapability of acknowledging the simple truth and status of your subjugated city.

Again, an Empire is one whose forces claim military conquest and dominion over another city and their territories. If my eyes do not deceive me, those are the banners of the North flying high within the volcano you languish in.

The conditions remain, and I await.

I am,
Regent Elene Arcan-Tetzauh

Transcribed by my scribe on Falsday, the 21st of Celes, in the year 6 AC.