It wasn’t that I didn’t believe Mark when he had told me that Julian had left the palace and hadn’t been seen since the morning, but I still had to snoop around some to be sure. I needed to talk to him so badly, I couldn’t just sit around and wait for him to return.
I asked some of the servants and the more-friendly of the guards. But each person had the same story, more or less. No one had seen Julian or his Beta Brian since the morning Julian and I had talk to Williams.
“It’s not unusual for him to disappear,” said one of the servants. “Prince Julian is a bit rebellious. Sometimes he would leave the palace for days at a time only to return with no explanation. No one’s ever really sure about that one.”
That didn’t make me feel at all better. He would disappear for a few days? Surely h
