James did not use the news version.
He went into the public register and pulled the original document, because a reporter's summary of a thing and the thing itself had turned out to be different often enough this year.
`[CHALLENGER BLOOD WRIT — REGISTERED]`
`[CLAIMANT: CORMAC GANNER]`
`[RESPONDENT: JAMES GANNER]`
`[TERMS: NO SURRENDER]`
`[VICTORY CONDITION: DEATH OF OPPOSING CHALLENGER]`
`[OUTSIDE INTERFERENCE: PROHIBITED]`
`[OFFICIAL OVERSIGHT: REQUIRED]`
`[ENFORCEMENT: DEFERRED — PENDING RESOLUTION OF ASSOCIATED PROCEEDINGS]`
*Deferred.*
Not cancelled. Not void. Not expired.
He had known that. He had been told it at the time in a room with a solicitor in it, told plainly, that the restrictions after England did not make the writ go away and that it would sit there until pursuing it stopped being a thing that would put him in a cell.
