The Sovereign Record arrived in the late afternoon.
It came the way it always came.
A bird carrying dissolving paper that materialized from the sky and found its way through the base's open doorway, settling on the table in front of Alistair.
The paper was warm to the touch and already decaying at the edges.
He picked it up. Due straightened in his chair.
"Sun Harvest," Alistair read aloud, then went quiet.
Due stood and walked over slowly, favoring his left side where the morning's efforts had settled into something stiff.
Elara stopped sweeping and moved closer.
The battle was described in the clinical language of continental military analysis. Two pages of coverage, dense with numbers.
Therasia's deployment was listed accurately. Sargus's death was noted in a single line.
Additionally, two Sovereign Debts noted, one denied and one activated, with the emphasis the Record always gives to moments that reveal a faction leader's priorities.
