The reports were on her desk before the tea was, which was the only part of the morning going to plan.
Katarina read them in order. A grain shipment held up outside the Greypass on a "road safety advisory" that no authority had actually issued. 2 of her inland suppliers suddenly nervous about the next delivery window as a result.
And, folded in among the trade slips like it had grown there overnight, a broadsheet out of the lower district with a headline about a string of robberies and a question, in large friendly letters, about whether the corridor was as safe as the Montecardi claimed.
[There it is. Right on schedule. They didn't even wait a day. Hell... They may have done this before they even offered me their deal.]
Sovereign Ledger:
Route disruption: Confirmed, 2 of 3 inland lines.
Rumor seeding: Active. Source untraceable (intended).
Narrative: "Greypass unsafe." Plausible. Damaging.
