[Well. He needed an excuse to put this off a bit longer while he arranges things, and luckily, a good excuse just flew on into Redgate. Saralegui returns to this message in the evening on the 13th, sounding appropriately harried and remorseful.]

I'm very sorry that this is so short notice, but I'm going to have to ask that we reschedule our meeting. There's suddenly a trial to be arranged, and I hate to inconvenience those I already had plans with, but I believe the people of Redgate have been waiting a long time for this.