The old man worked fast burning mid night oil interrogating the prisoners arrested with candles and whips, then collated all of these in to a report delivering it to the admiral miles away describing the entire situation inside Thesaloniki from how it started, how did it escalate, who is behind this, what did these rogues do, what did he as the governor do and finally enquiring the admiral what else can be done to help to ease up the situation.
The letter reached in to the hands of Antonius the next day by noon.
"I seriously want to smash open these prick's head and see what is inside." Groaned Antonius as he read the content on the paper. "Why is there so many grubby ideas forming up in their head all the time? Spreading rumors in the back of the enemy, I thought that the Ottomans have their pride of always defeating their foes through a fair fight?"