[center][h1][color=f26522]Carnatia de Valmont[/color][/h1][/center]
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[quote=@Mas Bagus]
[b]"Bless the great Czarnia!"[/b] scoffed the commander. [b]"Westernant sent out someone so naive I almost believe this entire farce! Lady, in war, all is fair among the combatants. And both nations employed some of those lousy tactics for information. Still, the entire enterprise of shooting civilians must not be justified, nor your role in intervening in the proceedings of the local law and trespassing or domain."[/b]
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[color=f26522]"If all is fair among combatants meant disguising spies as refugees, you have no grounds to lodge a complaint for Westernant shooting down possible saboteurs. Therefore, for the sake of a productive discussion, let us agree that both Westernant and Tretagor did what we had to do during the war, and let the past be the past. Otherwise, I suspect we will each bring up a litany of our umbrage against each other with no end in sight."[/color]

As Carmen then took over the negotiation, Carnatia followed his lead, cautiously accepting the hospitality offered. Watching the callous way the man treated one of his conscripts, as everything else it seemed like in this land, reinforced her belief that it was indeed a failed state if these were the sort of men in charge, publicly breaking decorum and flaunting a despotic rule.

Still, Carnatia was a noblewoman, one who was born to one of the foremost houses in Westernant, even. Keeping her face neutral during diplomatic negotiation was a skill she had cultivated since she could remember, and so, not betraying her thoughts, she replied to the commander's question with a polite smile,

[color=f26522]"Well, it would be a lie were I to say that Westernant was not one of the stakeholders. However, it wasn't quite as a sponsor. Westernant merely agreed with the proposition of the order to send a team to ascertain Paladin Thomas' whereabouts. Considering that we count many of the Church's faithful among our citizens, you can imagine why Westernant had a stake in the whereabouts of one of the faith's great exemplars. I happened to work as an Adventurer for a while and was successful in an expedition to the Land of Twilight a couple of years ago. Westernant's government thought that the order could use my help and thus sponsored me. Hence, my presence here. Now then, if you would allow me some questions of my own? We overheard some of your men mentioning 'rebels' and 'a witch', may we know exactly who these people are and how much of an issue they pose in Sielse?"[/color]

Carnatia chose her words carefully, specifically emphasizing how she puts the rebels and the witch as an 'issue' for Sielse. While her personal feelings for all of the factions so far were neutral, in negotiation, it was always good to at least present the facade of being sympathetic to the other party, hence her designation of the rebels and the witch as an 'issue', hopefully placing herself and her group as a 'possible ally against a shared issue' for the commander.