Lenora's POV
The capital's administrative council hearing room was larger than I'd expected, with a gallery along three walls and a central floor where representatives could address the seated council members.
Twenty-two council members, most of them older, all of them carrying the particular weight of people who have been asked to make a decision they hadn't anticipated.
The gallery was full.
We had come in through the side entrance at Tola's direction, arriving early enough to establish ourselves in the floor representatives' section before the room filled. Bramwell stood on my left, Petra Vane on my right, and behind us — Harlan, Senna, Aldric, Cassian, and a line of others whose names and faces I had come to know over the past months.
Mira was in the gallery with Rowan. She had as
