~LYRA'S POV~
The formal session convened two days after the letter arrived.
Shadowfang's senior council members were present via secured messenger rela, the kind of arrangement we used when physical travel wasn't possible but the conversation was too sensitive for standard channels. Three of them. I knew before the first message came through which three they were going to be, because Dravec had told me, in the particular quiet of the night before, who on the council had signed the letter. He hadn't been asked and he'd told me anyway, which was its own kind of answer about where his loyalties actually sat.
