The Division's main hall was the largest meeting space in the building and the board had filled it.
Eight oversight board members at the primary table. The director along the right wall in his usual position, which he had brought his chair to rather than using the hall's seating. Assessor Lindh at a separate table to the right of the primary table, the same arrangement she had used in every previous assessment. Reya of House Aldric and Rael of House Thornwood in the observer section, both with document cases open, both having been formally invited as parties with standing in the classification file.
Arveth sat at the primary table's far end. Not in the observer section. Not at the assessor's table. At the board's own table, which no one had asked her to use and from which no one had moved her.
The Zone Desk administrator sat at a recording desk near the door.
Kai sat at the centre table. Not as a witness. As the subject.
