29

We’d just gotten back from Wargs’ territory the night before, and while Bryn made sure the Kings were ready for the winter, Dom, Tavi, Lance, and I were back in the office, going through more piles of paperwork. It was a nice change of pace to visit home, but I was eager to get back to the problem of the children who had disappeared a decade ago. Dom and Tavi had been working to find any evidence of where the children were taken or where their remains might be. We were hoping to find evidence in these documents of secret, undeveloped land Gregor owned. It was a long shot, but we had to keep looking.

Getting Lance to agree to team up had been like pulling teeth, but after I’d caught him in the library, he seemed to realize he couldn’t do this on his own. Supposedly, he still found the idea of looking through paperwork tedious and unnecessary, but he was here, helping.

Tavi laughed suddenly, pulling my attention from the stapled stack of business projections. She was sitting on the grou