The spy's name was Edran and he had been on Threx's private payroll for nine years.
Vaelor had not known this until six days after the council session, when Maren had come to him with a name rather than a report and had set it on the desk and said nothing and waited for him to recognize what she was telling him.
He had recognized it immediately because Edran had been in the outer council administrative staff for seven of those nine years and had sat in the corridor outside this same room during sessions and had been present at seventeen briefings over the course of Vaelor's time in authority.
