Wow. It seems we did a really good job of keeping our secrets. I think we were actually worried that we had a leak, the fact that it seems no one outside the council knows exactly how long we had been talking about fighting Soliferium (there were people talking about it from just about the moment the war began) is actually quite reassuring. We did a good job.
. . . perhaps too good for our own image.
From a Soliferum viewpoint it's not a matter of nobody even suspecting things weren't all they seemed to be concerning our relationship with Zonasa, but a matter of a certain someone simply burying his head further and further into the sand as the war went on and as such refusing listen to any warnings, as for many the alarm bells began ringing well before you openly declared war on us.
