the ever present rumors within the royal court of a lost royal heir, the last true member of the royal bloodline, still being alive were frustrating. he'd always found such rumors egregious, after all, the royal family had been executed in full in a coup years ago when he was only a child. the idea of the royal heir, who would've been his age, surviving till now, was unbelievable. as a duke, he didn't have time for such things, till he saw a young individual who looked... eerily similar to the descriptions of the lost royal.