Felix searched the letter for the part where the praise became a job.
It praised accurately, which made the search more worrying.
The office of First Regent Severin requested the measured repair sequence, isolation states, return intervals, and limits of the physical separation. Its questions distinguished the local action which had succeeded from the connected section which had risen afterward.
Someone at that desk had read the useful part of the report.
Barnaby stood beside the seal.
“First Regent. Central Ascendancy authority. Not Chancellor Alistair’s academy office, through which this was delivered.”
“And not Valen,” Felix said.
“Different duties. A useful distinction when accepting them.”
