Chapter 48 The Belief That Broke

• The Council met for Magnus’s trial five days after the mess at the estate.
• It happened in the same converted warehouse where Kael had once begged for permission to fight a war that, by then, had already arrived.
• Isabella’s word in the courtyard that night had been enough to get Magnus locked up, but the Council insisted on a formal hearing. They wanted everything witnessed and recorded before they handed down a sentence.