Uvoren would have none of this. He met every day in the Chamber of State with a full council of war, the immense oak table crammed with all fourteen legates; representatives from the great houses of the realm; the heads of the offices of state; the Chief Historian and her deputy; and the leaders of various towns who had sought refuge in the Hindrunn from the Suthern horde. Roper was there too, listening as the same voices clamoured again and again for an audience. They would stand and repeat their perspective, either to a rumble of agreement or baying dissent. It seemed that most of those
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