Cassian arranged the private audience with the kind of invisible efficiency that characterized the actions of a man who had spent his entire life operating in systems designed for exactly this kind of arrangement.
There was no official record of the meeting's arrangement until after it had occurred, at which point the archive showed a routine private consultation between the King and the Duke of Blackwood regarding the duchy's ongoing administrative matters. The attendance of the Duke's consort was noted as standard for household affairs. Cassian's attendance was recorded as a courtesy presence due to his recent involvement in the duchy's financial review.
The evidence was presented in the sequence we had prepared.
