Chapter 11: Ember

They gave Soren Draven a trial. I want to be clear about that, because I think most people expect the mafia-king version of this story where somebody disappears into a lake. My father wanted that. Rafe wanted that so badly he stopped speaking for two days. But my father stood in the war room at Ravenspire and said, "She's not going to spend the rest of her life as the girl a murder was committed for. She gets it clean." So it was clean. A council tribunal, eleven Alphas, forty hours of evidence,...