Nonetheless, Frank hesitated for a while before clapping Susan on the shoulder. "I'm sorry, Mrs. Turnbull now isn't the time. We need to find out what happened." "What happened...?" Walter murmured, confused even as he looked around at members of his extended family gathered around him.

He then smacked his head and frowned as he recalled, "Hold on, shouldn't I attend Denise Laine's coming-of-age ceremony? How did I get here?"

"Jet brought you back." Glen turned toward a towering man with hardened facial features, looking around his thirties.

"Jet...?" Walter was stunned, as Jet was leader of the Turnbulls' blackguards and an adopted son of George Turnbull.

If Walter's family had to send the blackguards to bring him back, that meant things had gotten troublesome.

"Do you remember what happened at the ceremony yesterday?"

"Yesterday?"

Walter grimaced as he worked hard to recall and shook his head in pain. "I remember Sif Lionheart offering me a toast, and then I got very sleepy... I don't remember anything else."

Turnbulls realized immediately that

turned toward Frank right then. "Could you find out

certainly did not need imagination to see what had happened to

agent that caused hallucinations in the wine Sif offered Walter.

Frank told him that. "I knew Walter would never do that! I

"He'd never do that. He was

I molested the daughter of Morhen's mayor?

it was a set up," Glen said, clapping Walter on the shoulder but soon frowning. "However, we have no proof,

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