"The court's Spy Bureau and various family spies have spent considerable resources looking for this young lord over the years, but none have been successful. Hiding one person among three hundred thousand others is truly like finding a needle in a haystack."
"Indeed, a few years ago, there were rumors that the young lord of the Earl of North Border's family had died, possibly from an illness or perhaps killed in a conflict with the Desert Barbarians. This meant that the Earl of North Border's family line would be severed. Furthermore, the fact that my sister-in-law, the Princess, has clearly begun managing affairs in recent years only deepened the speculation from all sides that the young lord was dead. With no male heir in the household, it fell to the women to hold things together."
"So, this time, the young lord has reappeared?"
