Posited Murder
An Original Story by Appaloosa Radio
From the continuing City of 4000 Spies Series
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Rarrko:“Thank you PNB7Q for locating these for me. I have wanted to resolve the matter for some time.”
PNB7Q: “The documents that you had sought were difficult to find. They had been hidden in a bunker in a long-abandoned military base. It took some bribery and duplicity to obtain them.
[long pause] I notice that they are from a war that has been over for nearly forty-five quants.”
Rarrko: “Yes from a war that almost everyone has forgotten. A small war of insignificance. A mere ruffling of the feathers of the major powers. Less than ten thousand dead. Compared to the hundreds of millions in subsequent years, it was a small event indeed.”
PNB7Q: “I also noticed the seal of the Kingdom Gje.”
Rarrko: “Well technically speaking, it really was not an affair of the Kingdom Gje. It was an enterprise coordinated by one of the many sub-contractors that they Kingdom used, an enterprise designed to allow the Kingdom total deniability.”
PNB7Q: “I know the pattern. The Empire Sha Yot uses its own agents, never trusting anyone else. On the other hand, the Kingdom Gje, according to their pronouncements, had no clandestine agents. They were never involved. Always had complete deniability.”
Rarrko: “Yes. That’s the pattern. That’s what happened in this small affair.”
PNB7Q: “Why do you have such a keen interest in an affair that is of so little consequence.”
Rarrko: “Because I murdered a man. A man whose murder I was never certain was justified.”
PNB7Q: “You were, I presume, under orders. The justification was not yours to make.”
Rarrko: “The decision was mine. I was told it was justified. A beautiful woman told me. I believed her.”
PNB7Q: “But you no longer believe her.”
Rarrko: “I have my doubts. I had them moments after I strangled the man with a window covering.”
