KAELRITH
I had been an Alpha for six years and in six years, I had never once sat at my own council table and understood that I was the last person in the room to know what had been done to me.
The documents were still on the table. Vorren had presented them three hours ago and the council had dispersed and Vaelira was under supervision in the east wing and I had not moved because moving required a destination and I did not currently have one that made sense and so I stayed and I read everything again from the beginning not because I expected the second reading to tell me something different but because the first reading had been received by a man in the process of having his entire understanding of the past year demolished and the second reading was being received by a man who had finis
