Lenora's POV
The eastern territories' physician — her name was Braya — was brought before the oversight body in late autumn.
She was sixty, and she had been operating under a false license for twenty-two years, and she was not repentant in any obvious way. She had the look of someone who has decided that what she did was reasonable and is prepared to defend that position.
I was in the room as a witness, not as the proceedings' chair.
Lyssa presided.
She was the same young woman who had cross-examined Marcelline — direct, specific, unimpressed by deflection. She asked Braya the questions that mattered and did not accept answers that were adjacent to the question.
Braya's defense was that she had been performing a service — that the territorial governance structure had required medical
