The board convened within forty-eight hours.
Not the standard process — the review board had a standard process for receiving new information that involved formal submission, a waiting period, and scheduled assessment sessions. Cole had bypassed the standard process with the specific efficiency he brought to everything that required bypassing.
He had sent one message to the board's presiding Alpha.
The message said: *New archive material has been identified that materially changes the assessment of a cooperating party. The Alpha King of Shadowmere requests an emergency session within forty-eight hours. The material is not submitted in advance. It will be presented in person.*
The board convened in thirty-six.
We drove east again.
Different from the summit drive — that had been urgent
