Wrestling with her moral problems aside, Tiffaney was not the only one caught in a political quandary. North and to the east was the capital of Renslow, Rin Fang, where the ruler was agonizing over a two-pronged assault.
Firstly, several of his enterprises had been under attack, thousands of kids, women, and slaves had been rescued by a very mysterious small group. Cloaked in strange steel, they battered through whatever was in front of them and removed the product mercilessly. They also hunted down anything that could be used to identify clients and detail of their operations without mercy. Spreading like a wildfire, in a short span of several weeks, the profits from their operations plummeted. This would have been bad enough considering how much in taxes one lost, but this put the agreement between the Country of Renslow and the steward of spiral plains at direct odds.
