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hey Lluïsa, want to help accuse an important noble of serious crimes?
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[follow-up to If Hearsay is Gospel]

Victòria wants Juan Ventura dead.

She can feel the certainty of it burning in her chest. He deserves to die, the way he killed that woman's husband, he deserves to writhe in agony in the flames of Hell, he deserves to suffer for a long, long time. Every day he goes by safe and free and unpunished is an injustice that can never fully be undone. And the longer he stays free, the more likely it is that he'll hurt someone else, and that matters too.

And killing him herself won't work. It would be satisfying, she would enjoy it, it would even give him a little taste of what he deserved, but the archmages would just bring him back. He wouldn't really get what he deserved that way, and he'd be just as free to go on hurting people afterwards, only this time without Victòria being around to put a stop to him.

Feliu says you can handle this sort of thing by writing a petition to the Queen. Victòria is still not entirely sure that will work, but murdering him herself definitely won't work, at least not while the convention is going. And he'll be just as dead either way, if it works. Feliu also said she should ask Lluïsa how to write it in a way that makes sure her servants won't just throw it out, but she should be able to find Lluïsa without too much trouble. 

And — if she's writing to the Queen she really ought to do it as soon as possible. For the sake of justice, and for the sake of whoever he goes after next.

She tracks down Lluïsa as soon as she can after the Rights meeting. "Lluïsa? Can we talk in private, I was wondering if you can help me with, uh, a legal thing, sort of — Feliu the paladin thought you'd be a good person to ask—"

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"How private?" She's been preparing at least one basic confidentiality spell, just in case, lately, but it's not an extremely high degree of privacy.

This could be anything from personally embarrassing, like "how do I cope with my confusing feelings for Valia Wain", to politically sensitive, like "I just murdered a diplomat from Osirion, what do I do now"!

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"I just don't want anyone to overhear, it's not — I didn't, like, break the law or anything."

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"An unused room may likely be Easily Located nearby, if that is Sufficient Privacy."

In fact, there's a few nearby. What a convenient building. They should build more of them.

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Nod. They can find an empty room. Once they're there: 

"I met a woman today who told me that Delegate Ventura — not the one who was on the Judiciary Committee, the one who's a duke, Juan — murdered her husband for no good reason. Like, last week, not before the amnesty, and he wasn't defending himself or anything, it was literally just murder. And Feliu told me that if that sort of thing happens we're supposed to write a petition to the Queen about it, except he also said that it's a good idea to try to sound like an important noble when I write it so that her servants know for sure to tell her about it. And he thought you'd be a good person to ask about how to make it sound right."

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Lluïsa is so proud of her Lawful Calistrian, secretly. Maybe it's just that murdering dukes is hard but it's a start.

"Do you know which Duke he is? I have not memorized all their Personal Names." She thinks she might remember him, a little. Not knowing who immediately is something of a deep moral failing, really.

"It will help, for a start, to use all appropriate Titles and Styles. What do you know of the Facts of the Matter? A resident of the City was the Victim?"

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"He's the Duke of Gandia. The victim lived here, yeah — the woman said she let him in because of the rain, and — I'm not sure if he did anything illegal until her husband came back — but when he did, Delegate Ventura cut off his head — it didn't sound like he'd done anything, not even insulting him, not that it's okay for nobles to murder people for insulting them — anyways. Uh. I don't know what all the right titles are."

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