This week in the saga

The week opens in remembrance — seventeen years on, two beams rise where the towers stood, and he marks the day in a single solemn line. Then a bitter dispute, as a storm-battered island counts its dead and he insists three thousand people did not die. He returns to his oldest grievance, claiming his numbers would be far higher but for the rigged hunt, and seizes on newly released messages between two former agents as a conspiracy caught red-handed. And as the week ends a new figure steps from the shadows: an accuser names herself against his court nominee, and the fight for the bench is about to become a war.