Crofts sat down, looking at Consul Manlius.
"Lets just have the Consul sign the treaty" he suggested.
The door to the room opened and a man with slick black hair and thick black facial hair, wearing a uniform of an Inglo-Scotian Lieutenant-General entered.
Crofts stood, faced the man, giving him the Commonwealth salute (closed right fist to left shoulder). The man responded in kind, and the two sat down next to each other.
"Consul Manlius, Imperiator" Crofts said, introducing the recently arrived man, "this is the Commonwealth's Consul of Foreign Affairs, Erik Destler."