 Petar Delyan wrote a letter to Tihomir to negotiate for joint actions and made a speech in which, in figurative language, he told the assembled people that as it was not possible for two parrots to the share a bush without discord, so two emperors could not share one country and that they should chose only one leader, either him or Tihomir.He deliberately used the "parrots" because the two parrots used to be the coat-of-arms of the Comitopuli House.As he had greater influence than his rival, Delyan was unanimously chosen as leader and Tihomir was killed.