Todos los capítulos de Reborn Before the Mark: I Married His Wolfless Uncle: Capítulo 201 - Capítulo 209

The tribunal doors opened before the first clerk called her name.Lorelai entered in Veyr blue, not because the color could protect her, but because she had chosen what the room would see first. Karl stood with the Veyr delegation below the magistrates’ bench. He did not reach for her. His hand rested on the rail, open beside it.She crossed to him. Their fingers touched once in the narrow space between the rail and her evidence table.“You can still ask me to leave,” he said.“No.” Lorelai set the folded page beside the ledger. “You can stand where I put you.”Karl’s thumb moved across the side of her finger, brief and deliberate. Then he stepped back when she turned toward the court.The altered page lay under clear witness glass. Its clean ink had always been the wrong kind of proof. The chronology beside it had been copied from the travel register. Eve’s statements sat beneath both, s

The intermediaries’ door opened on the third knock.Lorelai stood outside the secured holding area with the neutral guards behind her. The man inside had been brought from the far wall of the room to the threshold. His wrists were bound in front of him. He kept his attention on the floor until the court corridor came into view.Then he saw Valerian waiting at the end of it.The intermediary moved.He drove his shoulder into the guard beside him and ran toward the side passage. Lorelai stepped into the narrow corridor before he reached it. The witness bench had been moved there during the hearing, its heavy base blocking half the passage.“Back,” she said.He stopped hard enough to strike the bench. His bound hands caught the rail. One of the guards reached for him.“No,” Lorelai said. “He returns to the court.”“He tried to flee,” the guard said.“And now everyo

Lorelai moved the court map back to the center of the floor.The wax seals lay beside it in a straight line. One came from the altered custody packet. One from the dispatches the intermediary had named. One from the copy of the advance order that still rested beneath witness glass.Valerian remained under oath.“Start with the first report,” Lorelai said.“I have answered that question.”“You gave the court a conclusion. I asked for a sequence.”She set the first seal beside the outer route on the map. “Your office received notice before Eve was moved.”Valerian’s gaze followed her hand. “It received an unverified warning.”“Then why position Noctis forces?”“Because a warning can become a crisis.”“And why did those forces remain outside the custody area?”“Because entering without certainty would ha

The gate captain had not moved the iron bar when horns sounded beyond the walls.One note. Then a second, lower call answered it from the road.The Veyr attendants looked toward the gates, but Lorelai kept her place beside the carriage. She would not turn a sound on the other side of a wall into permission to lose control of the convoy.A neutral guard came through the narrow passage beside the gates with two magistrates behind him. Delegates from both courts followed, their travel cloaks marked with dust from the road. Karl entered last.The narrow passage closed behind the witnesses, leaving the main gates barred. Noctis guards watched the new arrivals with their shoulders fixed and their hands away from their weapons. Lorelai noted that before she let herself look at Karl again. The road was not open yet. The danger had only changed shape.He stopped inside the passage, where every witness could see him and every Noctis guard could see that he h