In response,

You are, as you say, one on the outside. I believe Spirean politics are a concern for the Dragon of the North, rather than a Tick from the desert caves. The Chair is not the reason Spireans are fighting for their city. No single individual bears that weight up here, as Defenders stand against Bloodloch of their own free will.

On your suggestion to deliver his head, what makes you think we would deliver it to you, an outsider, if we, the people of this fine republic, were upset by his actions or lack thereof? Even if we were, Spirean justice comes before selling one of our own to enemy hands.

Winter's Dark Heart,
Teeh Stormwill
Emissary of Shadows

Penned by my hand on Tisday, the 17th of Niuran, in the year 505 MA.