I went to see Silas in the afternoon.

Not the formal debrief. That was tomorrow, with Marcus and Corvin and Dante present, structured and documented. Today I went alone, which Marcus had not argued with because he knew my face when I had decided something and also because he had learned over the past months that arguing with my face in that configuration produced no useful results.

The secured room was in the lower palace, two levels below the main floor, the kind of room that had been built ...