Elara's POV
The room was still. Every eye was on me. Every breath was held.
I looked at Corvus. He stepped forward.
He opened the folio he had been carrying. The papers inside were thick, stacked, covered in writing. He had been working on this for weeks. I had given him the authority to dig, to ask questions, to follow every thread. He had followed them all the way here.
He began to read.
"The names of every council member who has been in correspondence with Thorn of Valerium. The dates of every message. The nature of the correspondence. The money that changed hands."
The room went very quiet.
Corvus read the first name. The second. The third. Each name landed like a stone dropped into still water. The council members shifted in their seats. Some looked at the table. Some looked at each other. Some looked at Malakor.
