One day just one day left before the cabinet meeting and Akagi had never been so busy, still everyone was working very well with him. The final reports had been given in on the Dresmondi camp (only three Dresmondi survived; the rest were deaf or forced to flee back to Dresmond), the wall (failed; completely destroyed), their battleships (three of four destroyed; everyone on board the three gone mosty not recovered), and Arynnites lost (no more than two dozen). It had been a heavy toll on the entire kingdom, many hung their heads in sadness and blatant paranoia they had never in all of their lives been directly attacked and devastated in 500 years to grasp that in a few days was unfathomable it wilted logic to full understand grief or loss...it just didn't happen in Arynn Frey.

Still things must continue, they must carry on and that's exactly what Prince soon to be officially the King was going to do.

When there was a knock and Bowen announced his arrival the Prince sat down his quill (he was filling out another official declaration for the cabinet), "Please come in Minister," the door would open and Akagi stood to formally greet the large often jovial man (Akagi liked that about the gruff and hard edged man; he himself was often to happy too), "Have a seat," Akagi didn't let his eyes linger on the scarring of Bowen's face as grotesque as most saw it the Prince recently had seen worse and things such as the scaring were a gross reminder of what goes wrong with any powerful magic their magic too can be, "Cabinet meeting is tomorrow so I want to get as much one on ones with my cabinet as I can Minister, so how can I help you be ready for tomorrow?"

Akagi was the product of Cyrus Blackwood, knowing secrets was beneficial to most situations and the position of Minister of Internal Affairs was shadiest position within the kingdom. The Prince or King sat back in his chair both of his hands on his desk, "I wish I could say I had a relationship with my Mother let alone the former Queen that brought me in on...well anything...I'll admit I am coming into this pretty blind politically, so no I'm not privy to any of this," Bowen had Akagis attention, "so please continue."

The Prince and Minister only differed in age by five years, Bowen the older but Akagi remembered growing up around the Belcourt family and Bowen. He was of course pretty close to the man's cousin Clovis Belcort. Still if the man was willing to disclose secrets and pieces of the puzzles to which Akagi hadn't had yet...

Akagi listened to Bowen this was actually a breath of fresh air to be let in on such things and at the end of it Akagi smiled kindly, "Thank you for your candor Bowen, your insight into the former Queens running of Arynn Frey is certainly eye opening," adjusting himself in his seat, "I do have questions and my own revelations so first, are you comfortable enough with this position to continue Minister? If you are then can you work for me and protecting my legacy? And do the Blackwoods suspect my Mother to be behind the disappearance of Cyrus?" he'd want for Bowen to reply to his current questions, he had more and he did want to share his own revelation but Akagi needed to be certain he could fully trust Bowen. Akagi had been working with Cyrus since he was a small child, he was a mentor in a way to Akagi...a agent for the man and Akagi had done things for Arynn Frey that would surprise some but as far as he knew the Llewellyn family hadn't even behind any Blackwood disappearances...until this nugget of truth fell into his lap, had his Mother used Bowen to make Blackwoods disappear? Akagi would remedy that today.

"Nevermere is your guess yes? That is where you believe Cyrus was headed before his disappearance, interesting," the King was looking now at the bookshelf in the back nearest the entrance of the room, finger tips tapping against the finger tips of his other hand eyes narrowed in contemplation, "I will look into it, personally, about Cyrus," he looked now back at Bowen ready to confess his own secret, "It wouldn't be the first time I've handled such a thing, you see I know at least some of what Cyrus Blackwood did because he trained me to do it but broader than someone who handles internal intricacies...international level protection...threats to Arynn Frey from outside of our borders," he smiled warmly, for a moment that happy Akagi was back, "My last deployment was to Coheed where I eliminated a missng and rogue enchanter by the name of Ellora Roquefort," then he fell back into his chair reserved and in thought again, "I want you to first empty any of those you hold from my Mother's previous orders to be released into the slaver system, the ones in the dungeons. Continue monitoring threats both in house and out, but I want you to begin a project: we need five of our best Peacekeepers and I want them trained for a covert operation of surveillance, we place them when ready in few of the kingdoms our main focus being Lorendale, Dresmond, and Coheed. As I said I will personally see to watching and investigating Nevermere which is much more delicate given our alliance but I will also investigate the Blackwoods and see if I can obtain any information on the operations of Cyrus Blackwood."