You did your duty to the navy and in return they made you a torturer. They told you find the Cancrioth but they never told you what a Cancrioth was. Just torture Abdumasi Abd, just make him give up the Cancrioth. And you tortured Abdumasi Abd so well that he named your friend Baru as an enemy of the navy. So you went out hunting for Baru, dutiful as ever, and you found one of the navy’s own admirals driven to mutiny, driven to hunt and kill Baru … who was only acting out of her duty to the Throne. And the Hierarchic Qualm says that the hand is blameless when it acts in service to the Throne.
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