(Caius)
The council met the following morning.
I'd sent word the night before that the meeting would happen at first light and nobody would be excused from it. Pryor had the Ashcrest records arranged on the table by the time I walked in, every document sealed and signed and ready to be presented in the exact order they needed to be presented in.
Seven council members sat around the table.
I looked at each of them once before I sat down.
They'd had a day to talk among themselves, which meant they'd had a day to form opinions and share concerns and decide what questions they were going to ask. I preferred it that way. A council that had already discussed something privately came to a formal meeting with clearer positions and clearer positions were easier to address than the vague discom
