Emma didn’t have to wait for the evening news to learn Sonya’s fate, an e-message from Cal relaying the verdict minutes before lunch. As expected, she had been found guilty of being an accessory to murder and sentenced to the maximum five years in prison at an unnamed location. In his summing-up, Judge Dynes accepted Sonya’s insistence that she had remained ignorant of the mission’s true purpose until the crime was committed, having been told the visit to Rosebud involved warning a problematic pensioner to desist from spreading malicious rumours, as confirmed by senior public servants. The judge also referred to “unexpected testimony from a third public servant”, and announced that a decision regarding further investigation of his claims would be made at the conclusion of the agent’s trial
