She went to the east-facing desk. She opened the document she'd been building for Davan. Not to add — to read. From the beginning. The way you read something you'd built over time and needed to see whole. *The record of this year — of the years — is held in other places.* She read. All of it. The prosecution summary. The explanation of the Records and what it had built. The door frame and what the marks meant. The bond and the five of them and what it was like to be in it. The people — Fenn and Serin and Otto and Tobias and Maren and Sera and Draven and Brynn and Evie and Cael and Lenne and Daven and all of them, named, present, real. The paragraph about Zevran: *He is the best person I know.* The paragraph about the room: *You don't have to earn it. It's yours.* The last line befo

