The public gallery of the Alliance tribunal was packed.
Kane had brought my father down from the north as the defendant in the original case. Years in the mines had left one leg crippled, and he could move only slowly with a wooden cane.
The judges presented the evidence one piece at a time.
Selena had smuggled military silver out of the city. Before the ambush, she had passed our army's marching routes to the vampires three times. On the night of the Battle of Silver Valley, she had personally lit the signal lamp at the valley entrance and guided the vampires straight into Black Pine's patrol route.
The final witness was Black Pine's elderly clerk. He admitted that Selena had paid him in gold to burn my father's letter reporting a stolen seal, then alter the moon-phase dates in the le
