Chapter 317: What the Tribunal Finds (Part 1)
The trial of Arbiter Tamsin Hale took place not in the magnificent marble halls of the Senate building.
Instead, she requested a small, undecorated, windowless concrete chamber located somewhere in the depths of the judicial wing of the Vanguard. It featured only three wood tables and five wooden chairs. Arbiter Hale was seated at the middle table. She was dressed in an old gray military uniform and had an impatient expression on her face.
Renner sat opposite her.
He certainly did not resemble the polished and assured senior auditor who got off a boat in Bastion Nine. His white silk suit was replaced with a gray prison outfit. The area around his chest was covered in bandages where Lyra and Cole had pulled out the sovereign tether.
Without the dark, buzzing connection to his god, Renner was completely broken.
