{"id":23196,"date":"2023-04-21T14:00:35","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T18:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=23196"},"modified":"2023-04-21T11:27:02","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T15:27:02","slug":"the-kingdom-of-tokavsk-session-21-a-hastily-scrawled-entry-from-tomons-servant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2023\/04\/21\/the-kingdom-of-tokavsk-session-21-a-hastily-scrawled-entry-from-tomons-servant\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kingdom of Tokavsk, Session 21: A Hastily Scrawled Entry from Tomon’s Servant"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editors\u2019 Note:\u00a0 This entry was written by the same servant of Tomon who wrote the to-do list.\u00a0 The handwriting is sprawling and very distinctive, and we find it hard to believe it could be replicated.<\/em><\/p>\n

Tomon\u2019s meetings were canceled today, and now I don\u2019t know what to do with myself.\u00a0 Tomon doesn\u2019t, either.\u00a0 I\u2019m writing this while he isn\u2019t looking, but even if he does see me I don\u2019t think he\u2019ll do anything.\u00a0 He\u2019s relaxing in his chambers and not doing much at all, going through papers, I think.\u00a0 Anyway, he has expressed interest in taking a walk around the grounds.\u00a0 I hope we can go this afternoon because my legs are shaking so badly from nervous energy.\u00a0 I\u2019ve heard rumors that something happened, that somebody was killed.\u00a0 Some high-up of the king here.\u00a0 We are forbidden from discussing it while working, which makes me feel even worse because I feel I have to talk about it or something in me will burst.\u00a0 So I\u2019m writing it here.\u00a0 I heard this morning that somebody was murdered on the grounds, and now everybody is wondering who did it.\u00a0 I think it was somebody who was an opponent of the guy or a person who wanted his job.\u00a0 Maybe a hire since people that high don\u2019t always do those types of things themselves.\u00a0 Not that the upper classes are weak, of course.\u00a0 Just that they can pay someone else to do those kinds of things for them, I would pay someone to carry out a murder if I had someone to murder and the money to pay.\u00a0 I would never commit murder, but if for some reason I felt the need, I\u2019d probably do it myself.<\/p>\n

My favorite theory is that an opponent did it because I think that sounds the most interesting.\u00a0 Maybe he disagreed with a guy on something, so that guy decided he needed to go.\u00a0 Of course I can only imagine what that kind of disagreement would be.\u00a0 I don\u2019t really know much about how kings work, so it could be anything, really.\u00a0 Maybe somebody wants a coup.\u00a0 But if they wanted to take over, wouldn\u2019t they have gone for the king first?\u00a0 Unless it was a practice kill, which doesn\u2019t make sense if you think about it.\u00a0 That just makes you more likely to get caught.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Editors\u2019 Note:\u00a0 This entry was written by the same servant of Tomon who wrote the to-do list.\u00a0 The handwriting is sprawling and very distinctive, and we find it hard to believe it could be replicated. Tomon\u2019s meetings were canceled today, and now I don\u2019t know what to do with myself.\u00a0 Tomon doesn\u2019t, either.\u00a0 I\u2019m writing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2243,"featured_media":21356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1852,1221,1611,1257,708,420],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2243"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23197,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23196\/revisions\/23197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}