LILY'S POV
Kane's second met us at the door and took us directly to a room I hadn't been in before. It was larger than the small room. A proper meeting room with a long table and maps already spread across the surface that made Owen stop in the doorway with the expression of someone whose preparatory observation had been significantly outpaced.
Kane was at the head of the table.
He was not alone.
Renata Voss. Alpha Dain Mercer. And a woman I didn't recognise, silver haired and compact, sitting with the stillness of someone who operated in the field rather than the chamber.
"Miss Blackwood," Kane said. "Please sit down."
We sat.
"This is Commander Adira Lenn," Kane said. "She leads the Council's enforcement division. She's been building a case against the Covenant's holding facilitie
