Chapter 310: The Silence Around Kest
Senator Aurelio Vast sat behind his immaculate desk in the upper echelons of the Capital Senate building.
He was a man of exactly fifty years of age. He possessed no elemental magic. He commanded no Vanguard armies. He was a politician who was entirely smooth, perpetually unhurried, and famously reasonable. He had never once been accused of corruption because his corruption was indistinguishable from standard administrative procedure.
Vast did not survive in Bastion One by ignoring small details. He survived by cataloging them.
He picked up a gold-nibbed fountain pen. He began reviewing his weekly ledger of political non-issues. These were the problems he had successfully contained. He needed to verify they were still resting quietly in their designated boxes.
His eyes scanned down the parchment to the name of General Hadrian Kest.
