The last thing I expected when I arrived at Ashford was to see the gendarmes that had visited me in the hospital. Had Jack alerted them?
"Miss Bedwen. So you went home to recover?" the old man asked.
"Yes," I said. I did go home, didn't I?
"Is there something wrong, Detective?" asked grandpa.
"It's Captain. Captain Briggs. And this is Lieutenant Craen."
Right. The gendarmerie is a semi-military organization.
"And you are?" Captain Briggs asked.
"David Bedwen. Miss Bedwen's master," grandpa answered. "What do you want from my apprentice?"
"Apprentice? I didn't find any mention of that in any files. And besides, aren't you a light mage?"
"I guess the clerk who filed the documents was slow," grandpa said, avoiding to answer the second question. "And what do you want from my apprentic
