Three auditors arrived at the First Citadel on the nineteenth day and they arrived without an army.
They came through the neutral embassy route with four cases and a clerk. Nobody escorted them, nobody threatened anybody, and nothing about the arrival resembled an incursion.
Kendra had four hundred people positioned across the school core that morning. She stood them all down inside an hour and told her commanders why in eleven words.
An armed faction meeting three people with instruments looks exactly like what the notice had claimed.
Vasa had made that argument to her the night before with the entry request open. Kendra had disagreed for about eleven minutes and had then stood the whole line down.
What she kept was a four-person watch on the embassy route and nothing else. Nobody anywhere in the confederacy pretended that the caution had been unreasonable.
The auditors carried more institutional authority than any envoy the country had ever received.
