Why did she bother? Trying to convince someone like Joseph was like trying to smother a burning building with a blanket. The Chief Inspector could be readied for execution and still deny he had any price to pay.
“By what evidence did you decide that Stephen was a collaborator?” Joseph asked.
“This is ridiculous.”
“I quite agree,” Joseph said. “I don’t particularly care whether or not Stephen was a collaborator, but let us assume that he was. Were you or were you not privy to the knowledge that Akheron had instituted a court of priority to try—”
“A court!” Kaiya said. “What are they going to do? Put a few officials up there and give them suspended sentences? What a joke.”
“That… court, as much as I don’t want to call it that, has barely existed for two weeks, and already twenty-seven p
