"What exactly are you planning to do to Roderic?"
Valttair rested both forearms on the desk before he answered. He had clearly worked this through long before Trafalgar came back from Myrrhvale, and nothing in his face suggested any part of it was still being decided.
"I will meet Roderic privately once we reach the Council. He and I have avoided a direct conversation long enough, and I have no intention of letting that continue after everything his family has done."
Trafalgar kept quiet and gave him room. There was little use in breaking in before he understood what Valttair meant to put in front of the Vaelion patriarch.
"The mine comes out regardless of how that conversation goes. Nearly two thousand Morgain died because somebody walked into our territory, used routes they should never have known, and spent weeks building an operation under our ground. I will not bury those deaths to make an agreement easier for Roderic."
