Chapter 347: The Open Link (2)
The body of the room was comprised of ten rows of oak benches. Upon the command of Helion, forty officers from the garrison, watch captains and quartermasters among them, took their seats in full dress uniform side by side on the benches, acting as forty pairs of eyes for the open record.
Set slightly to the left of the brass tripod, in full view of both the crystal lens and the officer gallery, sat three plain wooden chairs.
Tobin occupied the first chair, his knees pressed tight together and his ink-stained hands tucked under his elbows to hide their trembling. Beside him sat Harrow, his brown hair combed neat, his mustache trimmed, and his grey eyes fixed straight ahead despite his missing sword belt.
In the third chair slouched the driver from the east gate, scowling at his boots with his bruised shoulder hunched inside his wool coat.
