Three days since the trial.
Duke Valerius's study was a mess. Papers everywhere. Maps. Financial records. Shipping manifests. Coffee cups nobody bothered cleaning up.
"Here." Valerius pointed at a ledger. *Tap.* "Corvus Trading Company. Runs the Eastern docks. Sixty percent of the kingdom's imports go through them."
Draven scanned the numbers. Revenue looked clean. Way too clean.
"Laundering."
"Probably. But they're smart about it. Smarter than Thorne was." Valerius lit his pipe. *Puff puff.* "Multiple shell companies. Offshore accounts. False customs reports. The whole thing."
"So we need someone inside."
"We need the real books. The ones they don't show auditors."
Draven thought about that. Infiltration. Information gathering.
Lyra. Obviously.
[System]: *New target acquired*
*House Corvus*
*Aldric's biggest ally*
*Cut off his money supply*
*Then he's fucked ♥*
"What do we know about the family?" Draven asked.
