The rank reassessment notification arrived on a Wednesday morning.
Not through the indirect channels of institutional suggestion — not through the academy's administrative network or the guild coordination framework or any of the politely deniable routes through which the Council typically communicated its intentions before formalizing them. It arrived directly, through House Elion's secured projection system, in the clean and unambiguous language of a decision that had already been made at the level where decisions of this kind were made.
Formal Rank Reassessment — Adrian Vale. Convened under Internal Council authority. Date: Friday. Location: High Chamber. Attendance mandatory.
Two days.
Elara read it with the focused attention of someone cross-referencing the document against everything she knew about the Council's procedural frameworks.
