Chapter 276 - Chapter 275: The First Fracture (Part 2)

Elsewhere, similar conversations were occurring between Liora and representatives of the Rewriter faction. The Rewriters grappled with a different but equally profound crisis. Their entire organizational identity had been built on opposition to what they had believed was an unjust imprisonment. The discovery that the imprisonment had been deliberately chosen, that it might have been necessary, that it represented far more than simple malice or negligence, undermined the moral clarity that had sustained their resistance.