His Forbidden Guard
He had filed it and he had not acted on it and he had let it be what it apparently was, which was a piece of something he did not have the full shape of.
Now someone had said it at the gate.
He stood.
He thought, briefly, about who to bring.
He thought about it and he made the decision in the specific clean way he had been making decisions since the situation had become what it was, not the deliberative way, not the way of a person running through the inventory of options, but the way of someone who had been paying close enough attention that the decision arrived already made, already weighted, needing only the acknowledgment. He thought about who to bring and the answer was no one, and the
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