As the safe door swung open Blake brushed past Fuchsia to glance inside and immidiately grabbed onto the contents of the safe. From within he drew a bundle of envelopes, each containing a letter, leaving the other valuables untouched inside. Out of all the contents, a sizeable amount of cash, papers of ownership, contracts and jewel the size of an egg, Blake charged for the bundle of envelopes held within. He frivolously ripped one of them open and hurried over to the window to see in the moonlight. He read the letter intently with a serious expression shadowing his face and as he read that first letter, the whole severity of the situation thrust upon Scalvia began to unfold before his very eyes. At first was about to curse out loud and shred the letter, but held his his hands and his tongue before taking a quick glance at the other letters.

He ignored the others for a moment, but felt their stares and coughed out loud before reciting the end of the letter. His mouth was fry and his trembled a bit as he began, feeling somehow nervous by the revelation in his hand. Truth be told it felt like a ton of bricks had just fell on top of him as he had first read the letter, that oppresing feeling that nothing was going to be all right still weighed heavily on him. In a long time, he was nervous, about this letter and everything it indicated.

".... In the event you are unable to bring this smuggler into the fold, I won`t be able to stop the more extreme elements of our goverment from employing a more direct course of action in stopping these shipments and taking care of the filth, that plague the citizen`s of Scalvia. It is scandalous to even think of the state of decadence, that Scalvia has sunk into and now mobsters are being supplied with military grade weaponry. What this Cromwell is doing is treason, a revolt, it`s madness to think he could get away with stealing from the army.

You have a month to find this man and seize control of the weapon supply to calm show convince the nay sayers that direct action is unnecessary, if not, then there will be no stopping General Bremmer from taking direct action within the city. In the worst case scenario, should outright war break out in the city, I wish you the best of luck, god knows that the armed forces won`t show any mercy, if they are given the chance to exercise martial law upon the city.

Sincerely

Matthias Cosimo....."

If one in the room dared to claim they did not know, that name, Blake would kill them outright where they stood. Matthias Cosimo, was, of course, the country`s defense minister and the other man mentioned in the letter, General Bremmer a high ranking war hero in the army, who had rather contriversial views about how the country should be run. Blake grinned widely and began tapping the folded letter against his forehead.

"Now correct me, if I am wrong, but does this actually sound to me, that all along Barrows has been attempting to save this city from being plunged straight into hell? Not that it isn`t there already, but... you add the armed forces rolling through the streets...."

Blake added with a hint of shock in his voice and for once in his life, he felt like he wanted to get out of the city as fast as possible and hide somewhere far away. He would have never thought, that Cromwell had been directedly stealing from the armed forces, not to mention that the army was willing to attack the city. Yet then again, why not? The city was a warzone already, it`s citizens were caught in the crossfire, the police force were either turncoats or half-dead by now and mobsters were brandishing weapons well beyond their jurisdiction. You add to that, the mention of General Bremmer and the more extreme elements in the goverment and you get the whole picture.

Out there existed people, who wanted this to happen and to them Scalvia would be a milestone in the nations history of when a city grew so decadant, that the army had to interwine to save it`s citizen from the madmen in control. In addition it made Blake wonder why he had been sent to discover these letters because it seemed to him, that the grandfather of assassins would have been better informed about things of such magnitude....