From: Raymond E. Feist
Date: 18 August 1997

There are a couple of ways to look at this. 1) the Kingdom will take care of the Lifestone issue, and we'll have gains because they're distracted, and if they don't, we won't care anyway 2) he knew of it, and didn't believe the story 3) he's just a very dumb emperor. He wouldn't be history's first, you know.

Best, R.E.F.