Chapter 4 Summary

The council member Jamison is appointed to represent Kira. A strong, confident man about the same age as Kira's mother, he took notes during Vandara's accusations. Jamison rises, and using his notes, addresses Vandara's charges one by one.

Kira stands silently as Jamison recounts the charges, marveling at the usefulness of being able to read. To help soothe her nerves, she runs her fingers over a scrap of cloth she stitched with intricate patterns to pass the time as she tended her dying mother. The patterns are unlike anything Kira has ever seen, and she showed it to her mother just before she died.

Jamison refers to the written code of law and points out that there are amendments that state that exceptions can be made to all of the laws Vandara tried to use against Kira. He knew Kira's father, Stephen (later...