TamsinThen how does a person prove they were not coerced?

HalvardI do not know. Nobody has ever needed to. There is no form for it.

DeaconThen I will write the form.

He says it flatly, as though it were a thing he had already decided, and I realise that this is the difference between rank two and rank one: I have spent two years defending something and he has spent two years building something to hit it with.