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I tried historical assignment logs.

Partial.

The prince had been active during the investigation period. Then his public routing became intermittent.

Nothing that told me who he was.

Nothing that explained why his investigation ended.

Just absence.

I stared at the last timestamp.

Veyr remained beside me.

“What do you think happened?”

He took longer to answer than usual. “I think he found enough to concern someone.”

That matched my thought. “And?”

“I think someone had sufficient authority to close his access.”

“And after that?”

Veyr’s jaw tightened. “I do not know.”

I nodded. “Okay.”

I saved the reconstructed trail into an isolated file.

The timeline was painfully short.

First access.

Second.

Third.

Escalation.

Restriction.

Attempts to bypass.

Then silence.

I added one final note beneath it.

ROYAL INVESTIGATION — UNRESOLVED

I stared at the last timestamp.

Six years ago, one of Anik’s brothers had found something buried inside these records.

He had followed it long enough to realize the problem was not random.

Then his access vanished.