Fifty-Four

"After I heard about the lineage thing, it occurred to me that my grandfather hadn't originally cared about anything but my dad's money. Later on he suddenly took deep interest in me, and I figured someone was behind him. All that man has done in his lifetime is maintain his fortune and the his line. He quite frankly isn't very smart and him suddenly realizing I would be useful in the future isn't possible. Let alone him realizing he can foster trust with me by making you the bad guy and by spoiling me. He just isn't that bright so naturally, someone else is involved. So from that angle I went and checked the documents. My grandfather's merchant company mainly works in four different provinces that are high yield. But about a year before my father died he branched out to a less profitable province, one that's been keeping an unusually clean record despite being known for a corrupt line the kingdoms been trying to root out for several decades, maybe even a century at this point. That is how I came to this conclusion. I have no doubt a man like the one outlined has every capability to find out my mother's identity and my own. I have no doubt this man isn't at least involved in some way, after all he's always been suspected of conspiracy, I think you will find evidence this time however, especially if you bluff his ex-accomplices. What do you think your Majesty?" I looked at his and he read the paper thoroughly for several long and tiresome moments before turning and grinning at me.

"At the very least we can inspect his documents for forgeries, after all this is far to clean, everything is unnaturally clean for this family and they haven't been culling people nor has there been a change in power, or even a marriage into the family. Far, far too quiet... We might not have connected the dots until too late... Well I need to consult the secretary and then the Head Huntsmen and the Knight Commanders... Plus your future step-father... Far far too many to speak and show this too and we need to handle this before there is that war..." He frowned as he thought to I simply suggested a solution.

"Instead of a bunch of small suspicious visits call a meeting. You usually have one every night anyways and you can say it's a security meeting about possibly increasing recruitments or something important. No one would be any more the wiser now would they?" He grinned at my suggestion and laughed as he started to pull out stationary and empty envelopes. He wrote the standard invitation for a meeting and wrote under it all that it was urgent to each of them. After sending it off he turned to me.