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Chapter 146 - Hostile Meeting

The Ivory board sits seven around a table cut from one piece of quarry stone on the eighth floor. Four of those seats had stood against Regina Vance since the lockdown began, three with her, which is a count she published before she walked in.

A board that seals its own doors has agreed to be counted in a room nobody can leave.

That line sits in Luna Marr's working sheet at the second hour, written under the seat map rather than above it. She has said since that she meant it as a prediction, then left it standing when the morning turned it into a description.

The seven seats plus the gallery were above the sixth floor when the doors locked, sealed in together. Eleven held proxies for holdings outside the tower, while eleven were staff with no vote in anything at all.

[Chamber: sealed under guild lockdown.]

Ivory security moved at the fourth hour and eleven minutes, without a written order from any officer of the guild.

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