The council member's name was Aldous Fenn.
I had catalogued him at the session this morning the way I had catalogued everyone. Fifties. Broad. Former warrior gone to administration. The one who had not looked at me when I entered and had been last to vote and had said ask Maren about the fifth founding family before walking out without looking back.
I had read him as someone releasing something he had been holding.
I had been right about that.
I had been wrong about what he was releasing.
Caden said nothing for a moment after Rowan said the name. He stood in the cleared room on the upper floor of the east wing with his hands at his sides and his jaw set in the way it set when he was managing something that required considerable management and was not going to allow the management to f
