Autumn Court keeps to the edges and misses nothing. It is the court of knowledge and memory, neutral between Summer and Winter by long practice. It collects favors, and the exact shape of who owes whom. It honors a bargain with a precision that cuts to the bone, sometimes literally, and it neither forgets nor forgives. In Parliament it is the least visible of the courts and, for that very reason, the most dangerous of them. Its members sit quietly in the lounge at Netherlust, watching everything, and often reporting home.
