“A house is only as strong as the foundation that it’s built upon.”

[Jasper sits in a small room at a small table. George Cade stands looking over his shoulder with his arms crossed.]

[In front of him he fiddles with the model of a small house, carefully constructing the base.]

“Everything must be perfectly in order, or else your house becomes weak. Unable to stand it’s own weight.”

“All it takes is one missing support beam, or an unlevel board. Even the smallest of cracks in the foundation could send the whole thing tumbling down.”

“When you build a house, the foundation is the most important part.”

“It needs to be solid.”

[A faint smirk crosses his relaxed face as he begins applying pressure to what he’s built so far.. making sure that it’s perfect.]

“We as Preservationists are the foundation on which Arcadia is built.”

“Without us there to uphold the structure, the whole thing collapses.”

“For the past few weeks, all of the headlines have read the same way.”

“Every news source and on-looking eye has said the same thing..”

“The cracks are forming in the Preservationists.”

[The smirk fades from his face, yet he continues building the model house.]

“Hounds to Hades is rapidly approaching.”

“Which means the tides of war are about to ramp up.”

“Our foundation must be solid.”

“The very structure of Arcadia depends on it.”

[Jasper puts the final piece of the house together, spinning it around before him in admiration.]

“Life as we’ve come to know it depends on it.”

[His cold, dark eyes pierce the camera.]

“Mister Sunshine..”

“It seems you’ve tiptoed the line of what it means to be a Preservationist for quite some time with your invested interest in Anton Savor and now Klaus Way.”

“Some of the articles that accompany those headlines are saying that you could be the problem. That you could be the one causing our foundation to crack.”

“With Hounds right around the corner, that’s something I simply cannot have.”

“At Warzone, we put your loyalty to the test.”

[Jasper lifts a hammer off the table, slamming it down on a specific spot of the house.]

“At Warzone, we stress test the very foundation that the Preservationists compose.”

“I cannot go into war without knowing that our foundation is sturdy.”

“I cannot go to war thinking that the structure of Arcadia could very well collapse.”

“I need to know where your loyalty actually lies.”

“Even if I have to beat the living hell out of you until that smile of yours fades away..”

“I will make sure that the base of Arcadia is rock solid.”

“Because should it start to crumble under the stress..”

[SMASH! Jasper slams the hammer down hard, causing the model to shatter!]

[Redgrave leans back in his chair.]

“Then you’re of no use to me or the Preservationists.”

[Redgrave kicks his feet up, both boots slamming down on the debris of the model house.]

[He smirks.]

“Either way, our foundation will be solid.”

[Fade.]