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Message: <blockquote data-quote="orsal" data-source="post: 2747303" data-attributes="member: 16016">Nurlan listens intently to Rinaldo's account and speculation without much response, except when merchant says"Or, more likely, Balmorrow. It's his lute. Wilbur admitted to having borrowed it and broken the string, and when he saw the broken string Balmorrow knew it was Wilbur, but if Mordik and I hadn't been present when Balmorrow confronted Wilbur about it, we certainly wouldn't have connected it to anyone except Balmorrow."Must be the lass he was trysting with outside the theatre yesterday, Nurlan thinks.Nurlan pauses to process all this new information. "What all this adds up to, is that there is a gang up to some funny business, and we know at least three people involved. But is it our funny business? Some illicit money, but nothing particular to connect it to the Admiral. Maybe you're right, Mordik. It's at least worth investigating further. And if it turns out to be unrelated to what we came here for... we'll figure out what to do next."One other point. You think the clues are just planted. Perhaps... but we shouldn't rule out the possibility that Abraham and Balmorrow are actually involved. We know they're friends. If you're right that it's a murder for hire, Wilbur probably isn't connected, unless he's an assassin on the side. But Abraham and Balmorrow are both rich enough that they might have been behind it."As for a motive... anyone in this town might have. The admiral wasn't well loved here. The whole Monemvassian regime isn't much liked. Arness neither. If it's a political motive, anyone might have been behind it. If it's something more personal, we haven't got a lead at all."</blockquote>

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