The records room stood below the hall where they found Kael's body.
Alex stopped beside the covered remains while the security officer spoke to the people recovering the dead. The General's uniform and identifying effects had been kept with him. His body had dried until the skin pulled tight against the bones.
There would be no answers from Kael now. Alex would have to look for them in his records.
Alex remembered Kael walking them to the building he had purchased, already thinking about the next meeting and what their support would buy him.
He had wanted the governorship. He had wanted enough backers that none of them could entirely control him.
Now his staff were carrying him out of the hall he had expected to rule from.
"His office archive is below," the officer said.
Alex followed him down.
