The air was still buzzing with when secretary Mika Red stepped forward. He bowed low, clutching folder with some papers. It was his first time before the king, and it showed in the way his tail was twitching nervously.
"Lady Sienna," he said his voice trembling like his hands. "We have received this from Assistant Timothy. It is the compiled secret record from the academy. Incidents logged but never reported to the headmaster. Discipline board entries that were suppressed."
Sienna snatched the folder, her eyes narrowing. She flipped it open, the parchment crackling. The first page was filled with neat script and she began to read aloud, her voice trembling with fury.
"Before any of you teachers begin screaming your condemnations of my treatment of you today, I would like to read off the names of the children whose suffering you ignored: Lily Carter, age six. Human. Locked in her locker for three hours daily for a full year. She was transferred by her mother the following year.
