What He Carries

Leonidas's POV

The inquiry into Isolde's death took four days.

Kael ran it, because Kael was the only person I trusted to be both thorough and entirely without agenda. He interviewed every servant who had been on duty near the lake the night she died. He reviewed the original incident report, which had been filed by a guard captain who had since been quietly reassigned to the northern border — reassigned, I now understood, by Alaric, six weeks after the incident, for reasons ...