She straightened, wings unfurling just enough to command the room without threat.
"I stand here today not only as a lawyer and defender of these godlings," she declared, "but as an envoy of the Five Godling Races."
A murmur rippled through the hall.
"I am here to inform you," she continued, "and to educate you on the true nature of our relationship with the gods."
She turned once more to the human lawyers, her expression softening for the first time.
"My fellow practitioners have been drawn into this game," she said calmly. "They are not to be blamed. I know that, in their hearts, they seek true justice for the victims before us."
Several lawyers stiffened, some lowering their eyes.
"But it is the nobles who have twisted that purity of purpose," she continued, "warping it into something far uglier, turning a search for justice into a spectacle of racial execution."
A sharp intake of breath rippled through the chamber.
