"You'll want the custom explained," Lyren said. "It's ours, and most people outside the family have never heard of it."
"Then explain it."
"When my house chooses a head, outsiders are invited to stand present. Witnesses. They're there to see that the thing is done the way it's meant to be done." He turned one hand over. "Lucard is one of them. There are two others besides him, invited from other families. None of them is doing anything he shouldn't be."
Trafalgar had already worked out where this was going, and he didn't care for the destination. "Say the rest of it."
