I heard about the confrontation from Sera, who heard it through the corridor door outside the chamber where it happened, and she had positioned herself in front of it because she was resting her back against a convenient wall, and nobody could prove otherwise.
Darius had maintained his composure for a long time. Sera said it was impressive in the specific way that deeply unsettling things were sometimes impressive, the composure of someone who had been performing for years and had the performance so thoroughly embedded that even discovery did not immediately dissolve it.
He answered Jasper’s questions directly. He acknowledged the fabricated reports. He did not apologize, and he did not pretend he had not done what he had done.
Then the performance stopped.
Not dramatically. Sera said
