After many re-readings of Imager’s Intrigue, I have to confess that I’m confused about the Kearyk subplot. Kearyk can’t have been part of the plot because he was complaining to the chalker about the missing page of the ledger. I’m not sure who made the forged page of the ledger, and why.

I probably didn’t make this as clear as I could have. Vyktor D’Banque D’Ouestan was a tool of Sea-Marshal Geuffryt. While Geuffryt was Kaeryk’s lover, Vyktor was often the go-between. Vyktor had Kearyk replace an entire page to cover an entry that would have revealed that Vyktor was a Ferran agent. It was never about the hundred golds, which were a blind to cover from whom a different payment was received, because the numbers still balanced. Kearyk was worried about the missing blank page because that might have revealed that more than a hundred golds was in question. Vyktor didn’t care if it got Kaeryk in trouble because he was going to kill him anyway, and the drowning “covered” the other change.