The City Cup champion holds an emergency convening authority nobody has used in nineteen years. It is four lines in the charter, written after a beast tide, letting the holder call every seeded competitor to a civil defence assignment.
Luna found those four lines at the fifth hour and eleven minutes.
She was reading the Cup charter for the committee investigation rather than looking for anything. Four lines about a beast tide are the sort of thing a person notices at a bad hour, and she put it in front of Vell inside ninety seconds.
He used that authority at the fifth hour and fourteen minutes of the morning.
The convening notice went out through four relay houses rather than the Association, because the Association has a procedure that takes two hours and nine constructs were already moving. Thirty-one seeded competitors got the same eleven-word instruction at the same minute.
He assigned all thirty-one of them by capability rather than by rank.
