(Caius) We left the office and found Zeron waiting in the corridor. He had a folded message in one hand and gave it to me as soon as we reached him. I opened it while Isla remained beside me. The confirmation from the Crown execution grounds had arrived. "Halvon?" Isla asked. "Yes." She watched me read it. The escort had reached the grounds without trouble, Pryor's copy of the judgment had been accepted, and Halvon's sentence had been carried out. His death had been entered into the Crown record. "It's done," I said. Isla released a breath. "All of it?" "All of it." I handed the message back to Zeron and told him to place it with the other records. There was nothing else I needed from Halvon now. He had given us the answers he had, and the rest of what he'd done would remain docume

