A murmur through the horseshoe of family seats.
Edric's expression didn't change, but something in his posture recalculated.
Serne looked at the evidence packets. "The visitor log is entered into the record," she said. "Continue."
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They went back and forth for a long time.
I want to be honest that this part was less dramatic than everything that had led to it — legal proceedings don't have the texture of confrontations, they have the texture of patience, and the person who wins is rarely the one with the best argument at any single moment but the one who has built the most argument across the most time.
Mitch had built a great deal of argument across a great deal of time.
Every point Edric's advocate raised, Mitch had a counter. Every document she presented, he had context for. E
