The session on the fifteenth day was the last formal proceeding.It should have taken longer. These things always took longer — law was slow by design, built to resist the kind of speed that produced mistakes. But Maren's military authority was suspended, his political backing was collapsing fast, and three of his longest-standing allies had submitted revised testimony in the night that contradicted their original accounts in ways that were not subtle. When your own people started rewriting their statements it was a specific kind of signal that even the most patient proceedings couldn't ignore.Dara read the final ruling at the third hour of the afternoon.She read it the way she read everything: clearly, without emphasis, letting the words carry what they carried. The findings covered the alliance, the ambush, the manufacturing of the treason charges, Elaryn's detention, the weaponisation of Aldric, the systematic targeting of vampire populations over four decades. Each item named
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