Corvina is awake and has been the whole time. There is tea, which is the least magical thing in the building and the most welcome.

CorvinaThe account goes to the governors. All of it. That has always been the arrangement.

MalfoidThen the governors can read what I said about my father in a margin and see whether they still want the seat.

The ledger is on the desk between them. Three ways to end a night like that, and one of them is yours to pick.