Malcris had corrected the adjective.
The draft called my response exceptional. His note replaced it with measured.
I read that before I noticed the second page documenting exactly how far I had moved through a space I should have needed to walk across.
Apparently he intended to disappoint and worry me in order.
"You disagree?" he asked.
"I'm deciding which part."
We sat in a faculty review room with Veylan and a clerk whose job appeared to be writing down every sentence the rest of us might later remember differently. The completed report would combine the earlier Silver assessment, the recovery review and the accounts from the market.
It was not another examination. Maelis had declined to authorize an active demonstration merely because the committee preferred seeing a thing happen themselves.
I had never liked her more.
