[KAEL — POV]
Thessaly's elder session was held in a room that had been used for elder sessions for three hundred years—one of the old buildings in the inner quarter that had survived every war and renovation by being structurally stubborn and architecturally inconvenient to demolish. Kael had been in this room for a dozen sessions over his years as general. He knew the table, knew the chairs, knew the specific way the light came through the high windows in the late morning and made the dust look intentional.
He gave his full testimony.
Three hours. Questions from four elders, two of whom were skeptical in the particular way of people who have organized their worldview around something and are being asked to look at the cracks. He answered everything. He gave the documentation. He explai
