Chapter 78: The Struggle For Ashmark

The reports took the better part of an hour.

Godric delivered them in the compressed event-sequence format that defined his briefings. No editorializing, no judgment beyond the facts, every item stated and then closed.

The warehouse district operation had created eight arrests across all squads. Three of them were merchants running commercial fronts for Coss’s supply deals, two deputies who maintained their books, a grain broker whose link to the network was through the salt supply building and was confirmed against the document, a contracted hauler whose road deals dated to years before the city split, and Ald.

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