They found Captain Baldred in a cellar beneath a chandler's shop three miles from the abandoned Arass manor.
The discovery came through the broken lord Castellan's confession ...the former occupant of the king's right hand, cooperating fully in exchange for his family's protection from the conspiracy's remaining operatives, provided the locations of every Arass safe house, storage facility, and operational site he had knowledge of. Most were empty by the time the household guard arrived, Protocol Omega's dispersal having scattered the network's physical assets across dozens of locations throughout the kingdom. Supply caches had been emptied. Communication equipment had been destroyed. Financial records had been burned in fireplaces that still smelled of ash when the investigators arrived.
