The Eve of War

Sophia's POV

Alaric's hearing lasted two days.

Kael presented the evidence with the methodical, unsparing thoroughness that was his greatest professional quality. The witness accounts. The reassignment records. The letter from the guard captain, found in his personal effects after his transfer to the northern border, describing what he had seen at the lake and what he had been instructed to say about it. A correspondence between Alaric and a contact in the southern province, ...