Three weeks after the tribunal testimony, Marcus received the call while making breakfast, Elena's cereal already poured, morning sunlight cutting through the kitchen window in the ordinary way mornings did now.
"Marcus." Priya's voice carried an edge he'd learned to recognize over the past year, the particular tightness that meant something significant had happened. "Verdict's in."
Marcus set down the cereal box slowly. "Already? I thought this was supposed to take months."
"Comprehensive evidence tends to speed things up," Priya said. "Especially when the defendant's own former colleagues testified as thoroughly as Voss did."
"What's the ruling?"
"Guilty," Priya said. "All charges. Sloane's facing life imprisonment, transferred to international custody rather than any single country
