It was past noon before Vaelor got the full account.
He had pieced most of it together in the hours right after, the way you did with things like this, in fragments, from the guards' reports and the brief exchange in the corridor and what he had seen with his own eyes when he came around the corner and found Caelum standing in his open doorway with his hands trembling at his sides. But the full account, the actual shape of what had happened behind that door, came later, from the investigation officer who had reviewed the corridor's recording panel and walked Vaelor through it minute by minute in a quiet room down the hall while Aelara sat with the twins.
He watched the footage twice.
