We drove back in the dark.
The board session had run six hours. Not because the evidence was contested — Callum had given everything without qualification, the forty-second recording reinforced by three additional archive fragments Zane had found in the hours before the session, the full account delivered in the specific unsparing way of someone who had decided that honesty was the only remaining direction.
The board had been thorough. The presiding Alpha had asked the kind of questions that the board's function required — precise, covering every angle, ensuring that what went into the record was complete and verified.
At the end she had said: "We will reconvene in two weeks with our findings. Alpha Greaves, you are asked to remain within territorial access. The cooperation provisions a
