NEVA POV
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The council summoned Corva to testify on Vesna Kael's behalf two months after the structure's active threat had been dismantled, and the compound traveled once more to the chamber that had already witnessed the Elara Record's correction, this time for something considerably more morally complicated.
Vesna sat before the council with the same composed stillness she'd carried at the estate, though something in her posture now suggested the specific exhaustion of someone who had spent months finally allowing consequences to catch up with decades of careful management.
Corva testified first — not defending Vesna's inheritance of the structure, but contextualizing it, the specific nuanced account of a woman who had spent fifteen years managing something she hadn't built, minimi
