The judge did not look at the document Sera placed before the clerk.
He looked at the envoy.
“Is this the condition on which you agreed to attend?” he asked.
“No,” they said. “It is a condition we learned we needed after reading who would question us.”
The chair called for order although nobody else had spoken. At the back of the chamber, a guard shifted closer to the public benches. Eli saw three witnesses notice him and stop moving. Order had already acquired a meaning the room would not record unless somebody described it.
Sera kept her voice level.
“The transaction identifies a business associated with the judge’s family. The public register establishes the relationship. The recorded activity concerns the transport of captured dungeon inhabitants after the public gates opened.”
“An insinuation,” the judge said.
