The Convergence Council met in full session for the first time on the seventh of November.
Not the first Thursday session. Not a working meeting with an agenda. The full session — all four species, all formal representatives, the complete roster of what the convergence had built over the past fourteen months. The chamber that Aelindra had found insufficient for its original purpose had been expanded twice since then. It was still not quite large enough, which was the kind of problem that only happened when things were working.
They had arranged themselves in the configuration that had evolved over the months of working sessions: species mixed rather than grouped, the alliances that had formed through actual work reflected in who sat beside who. Kane sat beside Kael, which would have seem
