Chapter 108: A Cleaner Conscience

INT. INSIDE THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S OFFICE - NIGHT

While the Governor-General was busy meeting with a very strange visitor whom he only met once five years ago, it was a very tense evening within the District of Peace particularly within the ranks of the Commish Guards.

It was the concern of the possibility of a bloody war that predominates sentiments, and whether the current handling of the political turmoil is enough to settle brewing differences, and forget the use of violence and arms as a viable option to achieve the desired ends. Many people from all corners of the Commission on Appointments are expressing views that the on-going conflict should be settled through all diplomatic channels available, where the District of Peace will play a major role.

However, many are saying, especially the numerous government officials and staff, that it is impossible to achieve consensus im the present challenges with both parties refusing to give way and surrender some, if not most, of their legitimate claims.

The concerns for peace are being repeated as a valid priority.

But the Rectory of the Commission was saying that the mechanism of governance must prevail, and let the wheels of justice roll for the sake of judicial determination in establishing a rule for this particular cause of conflict for a common standard for posterity's sake.

There is an intention to deliberately initiate a war, based on strong rumors, and the Governor-General had known of such an evil ploy to be significantly present within the numerous political spheres, but nobody was actually willing to provoke by taking the bold first step in trying to start the conflict in order to win it.

Yet nobody will win it very easily, if this war suddenly broke out, and the politicians knew of that fact as a credible piece of information. So they are taking advantage of these threats for the sake of their own prosperity without actually admitting that there is a silent war on-going by not taking the obvious side.

The political dynamics of the Commission on Appointments is too complicated to be elucidated properly at this point.

For now, the governance climate was clearly anchored on the status quo as if unwilling to be tilted from its balance, but such assumption is quite careless to discount the point of speculation. Everybody knows what is happening, and the politicians are only waiting for the first individual to make a mistake, and until that mistake triggers an avalanche that will kill the critical players to this political game along the way.

At the center of it all is the Ancestral House, standing proudly but a vicinity too much perilous.

The Governor-General's meeting is now over.

GOVERNOR-GENERAL

 (Rising from his seat)

I guess we have an Agreement, Mr. Colonel of Knight.

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