The investigation begins

[obligatoryass]

Their arrival in Amebergeldar is rushed, but Logan had time to grab a camera, a ball point pen and a notebook. He can write with a quill as needed, but it's so much easier to not have to bother. The camera...well. It's always handy to have a way to document evidence, as he learned from Veronica Mars. Even if he isn't nearly as good a photographer as she is, it can't hurt.

Amy leaves them in the Queen's Parlor with the ransom note and places a guard at the door. Logan snaps a shot of the ransom note, just in case it should come to an untimely end (stolen, burned, etc.) and studies it.

She's also left them a list of palace staff on a very, very long scroll, which Logan spreads out on a table and begins to read, taking notes as he goes through it. As he does so, he briefs Meg on what he knows about Ambergeldar.

The pair looks up as Amy returns, having shown the rescue party to the stables and sent them on their way.

"Everybody get off all right?" Logan asks.

Comments

[obligatoryass]

"To go through the list, and start with the people who might know something. I think we can leave the kitchen staff off the list, but the chambermaids, the palace guard, the pages? They might have heard something, noticed something off."

Logan looks down, unsure of himself.

"I haven't - I haven't done a real investigation, ever. But I dated a PI for - well. A long time. Worked with her sometimes. A lot of it's drudgery."

Now there's an understatement.

[noteful]

"Well, um, perhaps we can prioritize? Start with people who have a certain level of authority, or whose duties take them into contact with the Royal Family, something like that."

She shrugs.

"I've never done anything like this, either."

[obligatoryass]

Logan nods. "That sounds like a good idea. Let's go find our room and get to work on that. Then we can start talking to people."

[noteful]

"Sounds like a plan. Or, you know, a plan to make a plan, or something."

There's a pause.

"We can do this," she says.

Because, well, they can.

Right?

[obligatoryass]

"We have to," he says quietly. "There's nobody else."

He lets out a long, quiet sigh. "It's just going to take for freaking ever."