“They’re dead,” Kassian said.
“All of them?” Yulien exclaimed in disbelief. “How?”
“We only caught one of them alive, but by the time I got there to interrogate him, somebody had slipped poison into his food. Or maybe he carried the poison and killed himself when the guards weren’t watching,” Kassian explained, rubbing his temples.
They had run out of leads about who was instigating these incidents or what the purpose was of causing such unrest. Nobody stood to gain anything from a rebellion in that region — the nobles were being treated well even after the assimilation of Caen into the Empire and most of them took leadership roles and important positions. A violent upheaval would only destabilize the region and make them lose money and their labor force. They didn’t even have any mili
