Chapter 29 Withheld

“Read it again,” said Brannoch.

I read it again. I read the green word, and the blue line under it, in Common, in the flat voice you use for a notice on a church door. Kept. Answer received. Withheld by order of the Court. O.

“Slowly.”

“Kept,” I said. “Answer received.”

“That is not slowly.”

“B...