#Chapter 397: Day Trip

Later, I left Elva to play with her Nanny and her dolls, and joined Tiffany, Veronica, and Julian for a meeting in our sitting room/investigatory office. No one seemed terribly excited today, as we didn’t have any good news to share. “There’s not much progress today, I’m afraid,” Julian said. “In fact, we might even have backwards progress.” “What do you mean?” I asked. “I tried to track down the older couple that crossed the border with the two babies,” Julian continued. He pushed his hand through his hair and sighed. “They are long dead, and from what I can tell, they took all their secrets with them.” “They didn’t have children,” Veronica chimed in. “No other relatives from what I can tell.” “They might have confided with a neighbor or a friend,” Tiffany suggested. Julian pointed at her. “I was thinking that too. Well, hoping it more like. We tracked down their last known location.” Julian motioned toward the map of the kingdom that he had hanging behind him on the board