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Tsuneo

His eyes lit up and he threw his arms around my legs, squeezing tight. I pat his head.

I'll be the best little brother," he said soft and carnest.

"Of that, I have no doubt."

He looked up. "Are you going to be there for dinner too? You have lots of work to do, right?"

""I'll do my best."

He nodded. "Do you have to stay in the palace all day? Or do you get to go outside sometimes?"

"Sometimes.

That sounds boring," he remarked with a small pout. "I bet I could help. I'm really good at organizing things."

A faint smirk tugged at the corner of my lips. "Is that so?"

"Yup!" Kai said proudly. "Just you wait until I can read and right. I'll be the best helper ever."

Better than Lady Morgan?"

de flushed. "I don't know about that."

chuckled, squeezing him to my side as we reached the room.

You're a smart man."

knocked on the door. His tutor, an elderly man with a stern expression, opened the dor. He was ew and a bit unfamiliar to me, but Tarofu gave me his name. Master Neo," I nodded. "Thank you for educating him."

Neo's sternness faltered for a moment, warming as he bowed his

is a great student." He looked down at Kai. "Are you ready

nodded let go of my hand. Kai followed the man inside. The boy glanced back at me,

last time before disappearing into

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like a familiar shroud, but it wasn't uncomfortable.

Something as simple as acknowledging someone by name is the first brick for a strong foundation.

found that those with a sense of time, understand the

themselves.

father's wisdom? I couldn't say that the humans were very wise in general, but I could see

as possible. Repeating the same

will learn a lot more from my wife's human

to it, and the day that you will teach her something

affairs of the palace. The door to the left led into my own office. I wondered, for a moment,

or

flipping open the latest report from the treasury. My fingers traced the lines of figures, just checking to make sure that things

once, but in little increments that wouldn't have seemed strange at the first glance. I couldn't take the time to trace all of the amounts at the moment, but I could see enough

to get a better sense of things and how much money was truly missing. This wasn't the

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sitting with mother, going over the books, learning to

and taken care of it.

from the palace again using the same techniques, but I could

They ha

member of the royal family, but who

over the years?

deer with a

the possibilities. This would require more than a casual investigation, and I wasn't sure if we had

unlikely that it had started recently. I opened it again, flipping to where the funds should have been allocated for Morgan's trips to the human

and nodded.

there, too, so someone among the Elders had to be involved, too. A dead one? One still

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