A report sat on Linde's desk as she rubbed her weary eyes and drank her sixth cup of coffee on this morning. Her usual lively and attractive appearance was marred from three days of hard work investigating the assassination attempt on her husband's life. She refused to face her husband until after she had identified all the conspirators, for the veteran spymaster knew the king would vent his wrath upon her, and not in the fun way she had come to love.
After taking a sip from her coffee mug, Linde gazed over at the detailed report, which, based upon the information received from interrogating the assassin, who was currently located at a hidden government black site. While the Austrian Government lauded itself for its forward thinking justice system, the reality was there were certain criminals deemed too dangerous for a trial, and thus they would eventually find themselves missing.
