Chapter Five
Konrad did not waste any time interviewing Lady Lysak’s friends. According to Kavara Halim, she was not known to have had any particularly close associates, only a large acquaintance. Anything that was merely common knowledge about her, Mrs. Halim would already have heard.
That left him with no real idea how to proceed. He delivered Mrs. Halim’s information about Zolin and Lysak to Alexander, who promised to chase down anything more that he could. Konrad held some faint hope that there might be a record somewhere of Zolin’s original arrival in Ekamet, though perhaps there would not; if he wished to conceal his origins he might have travelled under an assumed name. Or, perhaps he’d been born in the city, and had simply invented the persona of Bogdan Zolin a year ago.
As for
