Chapter 19
Five months after the trial…
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The woman stood outside the gates for weeks, holding a sign that said, 'I have important information for King Azhanibek about his granddaughter Pippa Bristow.' The palace guard questioned the woman each morning as she arrived promptly at 8:00 a.m. and stood there all day clutching a manila envelope until the second changing of the guard at 6:00 p.m., and then the next day she would be back again.
"I will," she said, "only give my information to King Azhanibek."
After a few days, the intelligence community sent detectives to question the woman as she stood there silently at the gate, holding her envelope and her sign, but her insistence remained the same. She would only give her information directly to the King. She was allowed to stay, for Zur
