ask."

KIRA

Senna testified in the afternoon.

I sat to her left. Not to hold her hand or provide visible support, she hadn't asked for that and wouldn't have wanted it. Just present, the way you were present for people who were doing something difficult and needed to know someone was in the room.

She stood at the testimony position, which was separate from the respondent's table, a lectern at the side of the room that put the witness facing the council directly.

She looked at them.

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