title: Silence of the Maharajah
author:  Marie Corelli 
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  **BETRAYAL OF**
  
   **IDEALS**
  
  _Book III: The Switchback Directive_ _Blaine Lee Pardoe_
  
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  _The Switchback Directive • Page_
  
  _**The Grand Council Chambers**_
  
  _**Strana Mechty**_
  
  _**Clan Space**_
  
   **8 October 2823**
  
  The usual murmur of low voices went silent as Khan Sarah McEvedy entered the
  Grand Council chambers. All around the massive, circular table the Khans of
  the twenty Clans stared at her as she limped in, aided by a cane. Each step
  was labored. Her Trial of Refusal against the Grand Council over their
  decision to open possession Trials over a Brian Cache in the Wolverines’
  territory on Circe had been controversial. Defiance over the word of the
  ilKhan, Nicholas Kerensky, was all but unheard of on this scale.
  
  McEvedy felt the eyes of her peers burrowing into her face as she made her way
  into the chamber to her seat. She sat slowly, pain-fully.
  
  The inlaid symbol