The Elders began drafting the resolution at once. Three of them carried the preliminary record to a smaller table behind the Elder Leader, where silver script surfaced and faded across several sheets as clauses were rewritten, checked against older precedents and passed from hand to hand, the scratch of their pens the only sound for a time.
That left the Eight several minutes in which nothing had yet been formally concluded, and Nerith used them first.
"Nearly two thousand people are dead because a network tied to your House was operating inside Morgain territory without Morgain even knowing it was there." Her eyes stayed on Roderic. "How exactly does a Great Family allow something like that to happen?"
Roderic did not shift beneath the question.
