By the next morning, Rhosyn had recovered enough that Trafalgar stopped checking her hands whenever she reached for something.
The shaking was gone, and the night before he had told both her and Zafira what Vaelis finally admitted: Ilyra had carried the cup to Nyssara every evening, Meer had prepared what went into it, and Vaelis removed the attendance pages afterward to protect his younger sister.
He also explained what he found about Emric Varn, the warehouse lease and the dead man's name continuing to appear on documents after his burial.
By breakfast, Lucard au Vaelion was the problem still sitting in Trafalgar's head. Before speaking to him, Trafalgar went back to Ithanne's office and asked for the observer records. Lucard's arrival was easy to find, formally recorded beside the recognition of his position.
Trafalgar copied the date, then asked for Nyssara's death record and the departure entry for Halvic Meer. He laid all three beside each other and read them twice.
