Chapter Ten: Common Law
The Hartley kitchen had become a war room again, but this time the war was being fought with paperwork rather than fire.
Taine sat at the head of the table, surrounded by stacks of Ministry forms that seemed to multiply every time he looked away. His tea had gone cold hours ago. His eyes were red-rimmed from reading fine print. His philosophical mind, trained to dissect Kant and Hegel, was utterly unprepared for the labyrinthine absurdity of interdime