The objection from Baron Oswald Fenwick's administration reached the royal administrative offices in Kingsford before the Adventurer Guild had received its own copy.
By the following morning, the complaint had already passed through several departments, acquiring additional annotations and requests for clarification along the way.
The document challenged the authority granted to the Ironwood Party, questioned the reliability of its investigation, and demanded the immediate suspension of the Marrowford commission until the matter could be reviewed.
For an assignment intended to identify dangerous monsters threatening a major trade route, it was an extraordinary amount of controversy.
Inside Adventurer Guild Headquarters, Sage examined the objection while Boren and Lucan sat across from him.
"Apparently, investigating why monsters have been attacking merchants is now considered interference in territorial administration," Sage remarked, setting the letter upon his desk.
