The permanent charter required four more trips between Forest Hidden and the Sunken Belfry. Nobody objected to the central protections anymore. The arguments moved into narrower places instead. If Forest Hidden changed a land-use rule after a family built a home, did the old rule continue to protect that home? Could a resident appeal an academy security decision without revealing the private route knowledge the decision affected? If harassment began inside Forest Hidden and continued beyond its boundary, where did the academy's responsibility end?
The answers returned to the Belfry covered in Sairren corrections, then came back to Forest Hidden with questions written beside the answers. Rangar stopped calling any copy final after the second trip.
On the eleventh day, Mireva placed two documents on the Forest Table. "One came from the Belfry," she said. "One remained here."
