Trace was sent all around the palace to oversee various measures and checkpoints... which seemed ridiculous to him; he had no expertise whatsoever in security.
Still, who was he to disobey royal commands?
So he checked the ballroom for risks or hiding places for assassins or other wrongdoers. He walked the halls with the same idea, and patrolled with the guards through the lower sections of the palace where he had once snuck inside on a stormy night.
The king certainly didn't want a repeat of that circumstance. Even though Trace had claimed at the time he was sleepwalking, that made the guards there look even worse.
He passed the inset in the wall where Yemi had hidden the kidnapping note. A little wave of nostalgia overtook him as he remembered wandering the stairway with Anaisa that night. He sighed, and his brow furrowed.
