By the time Cassian and Sable left the lower chamber, everyone who had stood near that broken seal understood that what happened below ground would not stay below ground.
Cassian had not merely interrupted the elders. He had broken their protected room, stripped their operational reach in front of witnesses, and left them with no private place left to hide inside. That kind of thing could not be folded back into silence, no matter how carefully Rowan and Tamsin tried to leave with their faces arranged into dignity.
He sent word for a full assembly before the torn wax had cooled on the stone.
