[SERA — POV]
Dorn took her to one side after the room cleared.
"Captain Voss." She said it carefully, with the weight of someone who has been turning a phrase over.
"Councilor."
Dorn looked at her with thirty years of field experience behind her eyes. "The vote was four to two," she said. "The second dissenter was Commander Voss."
She'd known it was coming. She'd seen it in the vote count. She'd held it while the hearing finished and the room cleared and she'd said the right things to the right people, and now she was here with Dorn and she was going to hold it a little longer.
"He voted to decline the preliminary findings," she said.
"He voted to decline and to retain command authority over the Veyrath division pending his own review." Dorn kept her voice neutral. "He is not—Sera.
