Elfed in New York: Whisperers by Erik Schubach

Author:Erik Schubach [Schubach, Erik]
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Erik Schubach
Published: 2024-04-26T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10 – Suspects

I spent the afternoon going through the detailed electronic notes, complete with Claude’s observations and impressions of the minutia of the exchanges in the Council Chamber during the sessions I requested. Damn, I’ll never underestimate just how much the old Elf sees and hears. It must have taken years, or almost three hundred of them in his case, to hone his observational skills.

Between what he apparently picks up on in all the subtext at the Council Sessions, both said and implied and what people say around him because they think he is senile and harmless, amounts to a huge accumulation of facts and secrets. He’s like a geriatric James Bond or Secret Squirrel.

While I read, he was making what he called his ‘short list’ of Council Members who might be capable of these heinous acts or had a grudge against me. I was a little sad that it was a long short list. I know I shake things up in the Chamber, but it is for the benefit of all Elves, not just those with voting shares. It hurt more than I thought it would.

I looked at the top of the list and snorted. Council Member Jamal Ajibola, my long-time heckler in the Chamber. He wasn’t capable of something like this, was he? Sure, making snide remarks whenever I proposed changes in the Council was one thing, attempted murder is another. Right?

His particular beef with me was understandable, not only had I shaken up how voting occurs within the Council, restoring voting rights to the clans who contracted their votes for proxy by the Launs or Havashires, but not those who sold their shares outright. This gave his clan less voting power than when it was lumped into the Havashire’s on percentage votes, though it freed up his clan to vote any way they pleased in majority vote situations now.

I don’t know how the Riicathi vote even mattered to him, with my clan having the least amount of shares at two-thousandths of one percent up until the two most powerful houses ceded us one percent each as partial reparations for how they treated the Riicathi in the past before they fled to the New World. Now the Riicathi have…

Wait! I spun to Claude. “Do you have a list of all the clans by voting shares?”

“Of course but why do you…”

“I just want to see how many of the names on this list represent clans who the Riicathi just leapfrogged in voting shares.”

His eyes glittered. “Clever girl.” Then without looking anything up he took the printed short list from me and circled nine names.

I cocked my head. “I thought we moved ahead of over a hundred families with the reassignment of shares.”

He nodded. “A lot more than one hundred, young lady, but those are the only clans on that list in your hands. Do you want a list of all of them?”

It was my turn to nod. “Yes, please. We can’t rule out any possibilities. Even the one Detective De Luca brought up.

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