The peace conference resumed the very next morning.
The proofs and testimonies Alpheo had provided , the letters, the confessions, the damning admissions , had been thoroughly examined through the night.
Later, Mesha would tell him , given that he was among those reviewing the proofs,that the envoys had combed over every seal, every signature, every line of parchment, and that the witness testimony had been reviewed word by word.
Anyone with eyes could see the tide had turned.
The evidence was simply overwhelming, and no amount of favor or sympathy could make Sorza as blameless as he had tried to appear.
It was, in every sense of the word, a political victory , if Alpheo ever knew one. He had beaten Sorza at his own game, stripped him of the mask of victimhood, and laid bare the truth before the eyes of princes and emperor alike.
