The next day, the Elders’ Round Table is crowded with proof. The black ledger, the captain’s dispatch seal, route records, and Registry cipher wheel lie arranged beneath the morning lamps.
Zey remains at Nadia’s side, while Maelin and the elders who stayed behind from the night’s deliberations compare marks and signatures. No one has left the hall; every route is being weighed before a messenger is chosen.
Maelin Voss
The evidence now connects the War Council’s authorization to Amethyst and to the expansion routes through the Neutral Territories. That conclusion should reach a power able to challenge Renova openly.
Lute
LionsMain offers royal authority. ReignHeart can denounce the Empire before the kingdoms of the Highlands, and its rulers have no reason to protect Imperial crimes.
Zey Yeni
Namasei offers something different. The Guild Hall and Amber-Paws can move information through neutral hands, but neutrality may keep our evidence from becoming a royal accusation.
The elders separate the documents into two possible messenger packets. One would seek a formal audience in LionsMain; the other would travel west to Namasei, relying on guild contacts while keeping the clans’ control intact.
Zey Yeni
Nadia, you know what each road demands. Which destination can carry this proof without allowing someone else to rewrite what happened to Amethyst?