"Tara I have been thinking about how best to run things and govern the kingdom. Back home in my country, we had a President, his advisors, and a Congr...ss."Now granted, my country is much much larger than Kupolinis, but I am new to this world and so I have decided to set up a council of twelve advisors to help me govern fairly and properly." That sounds like a very sensible thing to do, my king," Tara said smiling."I will want a good mixture of people... shopkeepers as well as homemakers. I want. " Ian," she cried. "Ian Richards. I told them this and they have a description"Martin licked his lips and took a deep breath. "You see, I've been thinking. I reckon you were found by a guy on the run. Someone running from someone." Yeah, his Dad." Right, well I have had a look at people in the age range," he said and showed her a dozen pages of photos printed from a desktop printer. "Sorry about the quality." He had blonde hair," Rosie told him and he interrupted her. "And was running away from. I went to the window and lifted it. The rain was coming down hard. It was almost hard to see. I was tempted to stay in her room, but I was sure there’d be a lot of livery work to do out there that paid well.“All right,” I said as I stuck a leg out the window.She groaned again and touched my jacket.“I know, I know, ‘parting is such sweet sorrow,’ right? I’ll text you later.”“You better,” she said, stomping a foot. “I love you.”I was halfway out the window. I found my footing as I climbed. In one manner or another."Who called?" I don't know." How about the rest of you? Who called?"More denial."Looks like there's more to this than meets the eye."Traditionally, Cassie, is there anyway to talk to Crossroads without going there?" No," Cassie said. "There's nothing in any of the operations handbooks ... and if there's one thing I know ... it's the handbooks. The last ten years have been extremely boring." Why didn't they just let you go back to Cassandra?" Because Jack wasn't dead.".