No, there is no one else at all who is entitled to the property. [--She is very brisk to say, as if it is something she has been in the position of firmly stating repeatedly in the past and she has now gotten very good at it.]
It is, however, a legal issue. And the alleviating of said legal issue would allow me to at last sell off a number of the property's assets which I have heretofore been contractually unable to part with, and would save a significant portion of the Riftwatch stipend currently tied up by various city offices and by my own representation therein on the subject of my inheritance.
[A pause. She downs a considerable portion of her own wine, and afterwards moves to refill the glass from the bottle at the center of the table.]
Obviously an error was made. That goes without saying. However no one can find the error. For obvious reasons, I would rather they didn't and given that there is no one else entitled to its solution, no one is at all concerned with untangling the mess. There are parties, however, which are very concerned that I pay to circumvent that error for all eternity. They have seen to levying all manner of estate taxes, and to the remanding of various fines, and to the taking of filing charges on all papers, and so on and so forth. To say nothing of certain clauses in the paperwork stipulating the strict handling of various items, including those very ugly teacups. You follow, yes? [She offers with a tip of the bottle to top off his own glass with what remains.] Have I bored you to death yet? For I am getting to the part which I believe will be of benefit to us both.
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Date: 2021-02-18 06:52 am (UTC)It is, however, a legal issue. And the alleviating of said legal issue would allow me to at last sell off a number of the property's assets which I have heretofore been contractually unable to part with, and would save a significant portion of the Riftwatch stipend currently tied up by various city offices and by my own representation therein on the subject of my inheritance.
[A pause. She downs a considerable portion of her own wine, and afterwards moves to refill the glass from the bottle at the center of the table.]
Obviously an error was made. That goes without saying. However no one can find the error. For obvious reasons, I would rather they didn't and given that there is no one else entitled to its solution, no one is at all concerned with untangling the mess. There are parties, however, which are very concerned that I pay to circumvent that error for all eternity. They have seen to levying all manner of estate taxes, and to the remanding of various fines, and to the taking of filing charges on all papers, and so on and so forth. To say nothing of certain clauses in the paperwork stipulating the strict handling of various items, including those very ugly teacups. You follow, yes? [She offers with a tip of the bottle to top off his own glass with what remains.] Have I bored you to death yet? For I am getting to the part which I believe will be of benefit to us both.