After that short meeting in which the grand elder scolded the investigator, the process finally picked up the pace.
The investigator completely ignored his superiors' orders and did everything in his own style. Whenever someone asked, he only had one thing to say.
"Take it up with the Grand Elder."
The one statement shut up so many people. Grivon's Grandfather is known to be extremely temperamental. He is extremely powerful and doesn't take nonsense from anyone. Rumour has it that in the term of the previous clan leader, he got beat up by this old man because he was abusing the authority as a leader too much.
The investigator finally saw some light. The trial leading to Sam was obviously a dead end no matter which youngster they followed, but the start of that trial is not.