KAELRITH
The petition took eleven minutes to deliver.
I had been building toward the understanding of what it contained for nineteen days and in the last three days I had held the certainty of it and said nothing because certainty without sufficient documentation was a different thing from certainty with it and I had needed the documentation to be complete before I delivered it and the documentation was complete and I had arrived at the courtyard at the precise moment the bloodline arrived at the courtyard and the arriving simultaneously was not coincidence.
The founding compact did not produce coincidences. It produced correct timing. The oldest woman of the bloodline delivered the petition in the founding compact's formal language with the flat precision of someone who had been rehear
