Puzzles

The banished king

Janet tells me to follow her, so I do. Luke is nowhere in sight. She takes me down a corridor and into a small room where a bald man sits at a computer. He is typing super fast.

"Dr. Prince. This is Thalia." Janet says. The man continues typing for a moment then turns around and looks straight at me. His eyes study me up and down like an X-ray.

"I see,"

"I want her to know about...the information we've found."

"Very well." He turns back to his computer and starts researching something.

"Excuse me. Aren't you going to tell me something?" I say, expecting something much more dramatic. He pauses.

"You know, you are exactly like your father," I'm not sure if this is a compliment or not.

"Thank you?"

"-stupid and arrogant." That makes me swell with anger.

"Well I wouldn't get too big headed, you ain't that great either! And I couldn't care less what you think of me, I've got enough problems of my own than to have gossiping little old idiots worry me about what I'm like." Janet looks at me in shock, but the man looks indifferent.

"Very well." He says. He clicks on a picture of a young boy with jet black hair and blue shining eyes. In the picture he is smiling, but the caption underneath isn't great. It reads:

'OWN SON BANISHED FOR THEFT!'

"This, is Sebastian Buckley, the queen's son, however he was banished four years ago for stealing the crown jewels-"

"Seriously!? He stole his own stuff?" I ask. The man gives me a glare and continues.

"-he was greedy and selfish. His mother and father spoilt him rotten. However, as you do not want to be queen and obviously Oreno cannot be king, if we find this boy and convince him to come back, we can put him as "king" but create a commander, which is where that person decides all the decisions and the king confirms them, so he doesn't really have much control over the world."

"And what if you can't convince him, we can't find where he lives or he isn't allowed back because he was banished in the first place?" I ask, thinking of the obvious.

"Well, we are sending the three people on this trip who we will rely on the most, we have been researching this boy for three weeks and know where he is travelling, we also believe that his record will be cleared due to the long absences and the circumstances."

"Where is he travelling?" I ask.

"His current location is in Australia."

"Great. Ok, good luck with that. Let me know how it goes."

"Thaila," Janet says, grabbing my arm before I exit. "You're going."