The vote came through at three in the afternoon.
Same messenger. Same four sentences, this time three.
Four in favor, two opposed, one abstention. Resolution passed. The Ardenmere hunt is formally suspended pending review of the degradation documentation by the full council.
Suspended.
Not ended. Suspended.
I read it three times looking for the difference between what I'd expected and what it said, finding it on the second read and sitting with it on the third.
Seren read it over my shoulder. "Suspended pending review is not ended," she said.
"No," I said.
"It's also not continued," she said. "Which is different from where we were yesterday morning."
I looked at her.
"It's the exit," she said. "The one you give people so they can change direction without saying they were wrong. S
