Plucking Out The Weeds

Duke Kraus examined the piece of paper in his hand. It had all of the information about the boy named Riel Alheim written on it.

A commoner boy, raised by a single mother, lives with two adopted children. There was nothing exceptional or memorable in his first 18 years of life, one may argue.

From the time he was born until he was 18 years old, only one line was written about him. However, the remainder of the document was crammed with specifics.

-Signed up for the BrightWing Academy.

-Working at a newly formed core shop that quickly became the empire's largest core supplier.

-The mother's connection to the White palace family has been revealed.

And so forth.

Kraus frowned.

While the information does not accurately characterize Riel, anyone may pick up on something.