Bring Me the Head of Sapphon Delayer

CW: femicideThe capital is abuzz - rumour says that the poet Sapphon Delayer has murdered his wife, the poet Tinter Briar, in a drunken argument over royalties. Sapphon has been heard admitting the deed with his mercenary companions, but publicly he denies it, and claims that his wife has abandoned the capital with one of her lovers. Tinter herself is nowhere to be found. The great poetess' friends and allies understand the truth of the situation: that Sapphon is too well ensconced in the military and political machinery of the capital to be vulnerable to the investigations of the Baronial Agents. While proof of murder remains illusive he is legally untouchable, and knows it. Tinter's publisher, Elder Wass, has collected 5000 silver pieces from those who loved her, and put the word out among the poets, artists, and bravos of the city. The lucre will go to the one who can: BRING ME THE HEAD OF SAPPHON DELAYERSapphon and Tinter lived together just outside the capital, in an aging and…