It was a little over an hour before the same man returned to the waiting room. He called Shen by name. Shen and Janek followed him as he led the way to his desk. The man grinned as they sat down and Shen had to force himself to sit quietly at the rush of excitement the grin caused.
“I found some information for you.” The man patted the thick leather bound book, which sat beside his own book. “Everything that happens here is written down. All enquiries. Everything. And the information is sorted and written into subject groups. When anyone is looking for a missing person who disappeared at the same time as the volcanic eruption, it goes into books of that subject. It seems that about a week ago a man asked about a boy child who went missing the same year as the last eruption. The child wore
