The cordon closed at the fourth hour of the morning, eleven posts along the district line, with no warrant served anywhere in Orison. Blackforge had taken the Dungeon Games the previous day, which is the only reason anybody outside the city was watching a district gate.
A siege is a way of spending somebody else's time until the paperwork behind them expires.
That sentence belongs to Regina Vance, who put it at the head of a working sheet before she wrote a single figure under it. She has never repeated it on a relay feed, though Luna published the sheet inside the day with the arithmetic left in.
Regina holds strategy control now, under an audit Luna Marr signs every four hours. She is a bound partner rather than a member, which is a distinction Directorate counsel spent nine days failing to break in front of a national panel.
