[KAEL — POV]
They voted.
The Warden's Flame Veyrath council voted four to two to formally adopt the preliminary findings, authorize the joint investigation, and suspend all military action against Noctis forces pending the investigation's completion. One of the two dissenters was a captain he hadn't met who looked very young and very certain, which was its own kind of problem for the future. The other dissenter was—
He watched Sera watching the vote count. He watched the moment she registered the second dissenter's name, which from this distance he couldn't read but which made something move briefly across her face.
He would ask her later.
On the Noctis side, Thessaly's session had voted to adopt the findings before the hearing reconvened. Three to one. He knew the one—Theydon, who ha
