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Chapter 2

Seh stared in shock. He bowed to the men.

"Hello, Seh," his father said, still looking over the maps on the table. "Nice of you to join us."

Seh glanced around. "What's going on?"

Henrik motioned to NgGung and said, "NgGung here has found something quite odd. He claims to have found a young girl, around the age of eighteen, in Jinan. He says that she has no recollection from the time before she was thirteen."

Seh cocked an eyebrow. "Is that it?"

The Governor continued, "No. He also says that she's the one who's been responsible for the string thieveries in that city.

"Not that it wasn't a criminal's paradise before," Seh added under his breath.

"But she's the one commonly known in Jinan as the 'Urchin Princess,'" Mong finished, looking triumphant.

Both of Seh's eyebrows raised. "I know the name. I was just in Jinan three weeks ago. She's been causing quite a stir there."

Gao nodded. "Not only that, but did you get a good look at her wanted posters?"

Seh shook his head. "No. I was there to barter for weapons with HukJee, not to sight-see."

Sanfu handed Seh a rolled-up piece of parchment. "Then you'd best look at this."

Seh unrolled the paper and looked at it.

It was a wanted poster for the girl known as the 'Urchin Princess.' Something felt extremely familiar about her…

"She looks just like Hok!" Seh realized.

NgGung nodded. "Yes. Not only that, but she wears a pendant around her neck made of jade. If you look at it closely, you can easily tell that it's a crane."

Seh stared in awe at the poster. Sure enough, he noticed the necklace. "It's the same one that Hok wore."

"There's more," the King said.

"What more could there possibly be?" Bing asked, walking into the tent, eleven-year-old GongJee following closely at her side.

"HukJee contacted me a few days ago," NgGung said. "He says that he had harbored the Urchin Princess for a few days. And that she might have information that could be of use to us."

"Meaning…?" GongJee asked.

"Meaning that she might possibly know why rebel troops have been on the move as of late," the Governor answered. "He says that she stole some food from them and heard bits and pieces of their conversation."

"What does this have to do with anything?" Bing asked.

"We can use her to get the information," Mong replied. "If she was able to get in and out of the rebel's camp without being noticed, then she would be a formidable spy. She could be of potential use to us."

"That's why we want to send Seh and the others to get her," Gao said.

"I'm in," Seh said instantly.

"Good," the King said. "But we'll need you, Ying, Cheen, and Sum to gather the others. She's slippery. No one has even come close to catching her."

Seh nodded. "Just tell me where to go."

I'm sooo sorry for the delayed update! I've been so busy with my other stories and my own book that this has been hardly of a concern to me! Please don't kill me!

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