“Écume de mer Éternité…” It takes a moment for the title to fully register.“Wait.The old shipwreck?”
“Yeah.”
“The old,legendaryshipwreck?”
“Yeah.”
“The old,legendary, impossibleto find shipwreck?”
“Copy & Paste.”
“You can’t find something that doesn’t exist, Zero.”
“Heclaimsto have new deets indicating that it does.”
“Have those claims been substantiated by an outside party?”
“IDK, my guy.I just know what he told me.”
“That’s insufficient information.”
“He wants me to use the new deets to not only locate it-”
“Assuming the information is actually valid.”
“-but to also retrieve it.”
“Why?” Additional irritation finds its way into my tone.“Is he changing careers from royal pain in the ass to cultural museum coordinator?”
“Docent.”
“Why do you know that word?”
“Why is it weird that I do?”
“Weird isnotthe word choice I would use nor is this a case I feel has any true legal standing.”Rather than let him speak again, I move back to interrogating the only other male I would ever bother calling my best friend.“Why does this prince – whichever prince it is since we haven’t covered that – want this shipwreck?Beyondthe obvious reasons of fame, fortune, and infamy.”
“Because the current king’s dying declaration-”
“There’s always an old dying man involved with a totally admissible declaration.”
“-is that the throne is to be left to the offspring that recovers the wreckage, which is theonlychance Weslington has at really becomingkingbecause he’stechnicallysecond born; therefore not in direct line unless something were to happen to his sibling.”
“Prince Thaddeus Weslington of Hoalkey?”Furrowing of my brow thoughtlessly occurs.“Isn’t he a twin?”
“Thesecondtwin meaning his sister will become queen if he doesn’t find that ship and fast.”
“The ship that most historians would argue – in open court, under oath – that they don’t believeactuallyfucking exists?”
“That’d be the one.”
I slowly shake my head in continuous disbelief.“And you need me to find you a legal loophole out of this shit?”
“If you can.”
“And if I can’t?”
“Then I’m gonna need you to help me find that fucking ship.”
