Segna had come to the conclusion that she could not afford to put her faith in the Seneschal of Delays. The Seneschal had encyclopedic knowledge of the implementation delays that would be imposed on every possible royal decree she could make, but she could not trust the Seneschal to keep track of what she had actually decreed or when each delayed decree was to go into effect. Those things she would have to keep track of herself if she wanted to have any hope of checking and verifying that a decree had ac...