"The traitor is you!" Rear Admiral Coros, a distant relative of Admiral Dale, slammed the table and stood up, filled with rage and ready to tear Lyra apart.
Cohen didn't defend her directly but instead brought up the Wyrmtrace battle. "It was the same back then. The Empire's forces arrived far too quickly—it was clear they had been waiting nearby. There must have been a traitor involved."
"But all of this is just Rear Admiral Shedd's one-sided account," Supreme Ronin interjected. "At the end of the day, if you hadn't brought space pirates into the battlefield, none of this would have happened."
Lyra locked eyes with her accuser and stated firmly, "I've already said it has nothing to do with the space pirates."
"But Admiral Dale did die at your base," Conners said, his voice heavy with grief over the loss of his old friend. "You can't escape responsibility for that."
That much was true.
