(Caius) I finished with Drace and Hadoc and Dolin in under an hour. Drace gave me the most. Not willingly, not at first, but he was a practical man and practical men understood quickly when the calculation had shifted past the point where protecting themselves meant protecting the people above them. He talked about the chain order, about the whipping schedule, about the pack hierarchy meetings where Isla's situation had been discussed and decided and maintained year after year. He kept his voice flat and his eyes on the table and he gave me names and dates and specific incidents and I let him give them without interrupting. Hadoc gave me less but what he gave me confirmed what Drace had said. Dolin gave me almost nothing useful but his silence on certain questions was its own kind of an

