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The final access timestamp sat at the bottom.
Then nothing.
No more queries.
No requests.
No notes.
No archive views.
Nothing.
I searched the next month.
Then the next.
A year.
Nothing.
The royal identifier vanished from the data trail completely.
My pulse picked up. “Why did he stop?”
Veyr’s expression had gone hard.
“There are several possibilities.”
“Ordered to stop or lost interest.”
“Both are possibilities. Last, not likely.”
I thought about Anik’s brothers.
The ones I barely knew existed until now.
Somewhere off-colony.
Diplomatic assignments.
Expeditions.
A rogue brother.
Others who never stayed still.
One of them had found this before us.
And then stopped.
Or had been stopped.
I searched for the identifier in general royal records.
Restricted.
Again.
