The name Darius had given me was Count Maeris.
I did not know the name. That was the first problem, because by this point I had spent eight months building a working knowledge of the duchy's political landscape and the court's principal figures, and a name I did not recognize in a document connected to a murder arranged eleven years ago was either a name that had been deliberately kept invisible or a name that had belonged to someone who operated at a level I had not yet been mapping.
