"Well, it's not nothing but it's not going to satisfy Taldor."

She starts sketching as soon as she can see her hands. "Here's what I saw below."

"- huh."

"Hm?"

"Those look Chelish. Wonder where they're taking them."

"- somebody with better daylight vision wanna figure out their heading from the sun?"

"Due East. They might plan to turn at some point, though."

"If they're taking weapons to Taldor we're not going to win any points by telling the Taldans about it."

"Could be to one faction or another in Taldor, for a civil dispute."

"Those are ship armaments."

"Yeah."

"Is their shipment in violation of some treaty all by itself, or is this likely to be purely a matter of secrecy?"

"Cheliax can send Taldor ship cannons if they want to. Just - weird thing to want for some sort of internal dispute."

"It looked newish, not passed on secondhand."

"Who would Cheliax want Taldor to pick a fight with - got any more of that Fox's -"

"Fox's Cunning."

"Thanks."

"Most plausibly Andoran, right?"

"Did anything recently happen?"

"Not that I've heard of. But it's between Taldor and Cheliax and one imagines Cheliax wants it back."

"The hypothesis here being - there's a Taldan faction taking Chelish support on the sly in exchange for future support taking Andoran?"

"Yes. I don't think it's actively likely, but there's a Taldan faction taking Chelish support for something and Andoran seems like a more plausible summary than anything else. - they've got no reason to bother us. I assume."

"I mean, they probably aren't provoked, that doesn't mean no reason, if we were looking at Andoran prepping to invade Cheliax that might be unprovoked but there's an obvious reason."

"We want to divert this or follow along and see where it's headed?"

"I think follow it - a whole war's going to get bigger than one boat and we don't even know if your Taldan acquaintances will be glad of the news yet."