Xander
To gain access to the archived documents, my parents followed me to the office with Astrea and Leo. A relatively small number of pages dealt with King Ralph's empire, as far as I could tell. His time in power was brief, after all. I looked through the pages for a portrait of the King's counsellor, but couldn't find one. The King, the Queen, and his ministers were all pictured in black and white, but his advisor was conspicuously absent.
Disappointed, my friends and I put the files back on the shelves.
"I guess it's not there," mom mumbled as we put the files away.
"Too bad. I was looking forward to seeing a picture of Larry. I was curious, I guess. I wanted to see the face of my mother's killer," grandpa said, standing up from his seat. Once my parents assumed power, he and my
