Chapter 564

"Then we go straight to the officials handling it," Kael pressed. "Someone must be willing to listen. We offer coin, favors, whatever it takes."

Torin shook his head again. "We've only been in office a few years. How many men of real weight do we know? And what could we offer that they'd actually value? If we misstep, we don't just fail. We hand them more reason to suspect us."

Kael fell silent, f