Ch. 141Preliminary Convention
Zhou Yu found that Ragunna City’s Silent Maintenance order violated the convention and uncovered evidence that someone had misused Phoebe’s seal. Phoebe launched an investigation, but the maintenance began anyway, plunging the city’s Echoes and guide lamps into silence.
- Zhou Yu and Sigelica copied the convention and compared it with ten years of festival regulations, finding that Silent Maintenance was posted too late and had a suspicious reference number.
- Zhou Yu challenged the priest at the Order’s service window, and the priest sent the order to the archives for investigation.
- Phoebe found that the approval stub bore her seal without her signature, then secured the seal and ordered a quiet review of records-office staff.
- Phoebe rejected the Elders’ Council’s suggestion to conceal the issue and said she would summon whoever had used her name.
- Silent Maintenance began at nine, stopping the Echoes and extinguishing the guide lamps across the city.
- Zhou Yu told the others to go to bed and prepare to work starting the next day.