LYSSARA
The tribunal's conclusion arrived in Vorren's hand. Not through a formal courier and not through the founding compact's official correspondence channels, in Vorren's specific, precise handwriting on the specific quality of paper he had always used for things that mattered, delivered by a wolf who had ridden from Ironveil in three days rather than the standard five because Vorren had assessed that three days was the correct pace for this particular document and had instructed accordingly.
I recognized the handwriting before I read the seal. I sat down before I broke it. He had written it the way he wrote everything, with the flat economy of a man who understood that the information was sufficient and that the information did not require decoration. The tribunal's conclusion is in
