Bramwell's POV
The capital investigation's conclusion came in winter, two months after Marcelline's second letter.
The findings were presented to the territorial council in writing rather than in session — a document of forty-three pages covering twenty-two years of documented governance abuse across multiple territories, fifty-one specific charges, and the capital council's determination.
Life sentence to capital custody, with no provision for early release.
The document was comprehensive, accurate, and covered everything the inquiry had found and several things it hadn't — the capital's investigative resources were significantly greater than ours, and they had found connections we had missed.
I read it in the records room. Lenora sat across from me. We read in silence.
When we fini
