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As Told By Prince Martin

posted by Ginger at 10:06 PM, August 11, 2004 | Filed under : Ambertales | Comments and Followups

The story of Demond Harga’rel’s untimely death, as Martin described it to Celina.

A few years ago, and I guess this must have been before you came to court, there was a breakin at Llewella’s townhome. Every piece of glass in the place was shattered, he said. Nobody knows who did it, or what they were looking for. Conner, as first secretary to Ambassador Droit, was the Amber liaison appointed to the investigation. Sir Montage was the Rebman liaison.

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After he started investigating, Conner was lured into an ambush, and got the crap beat out of him by a pair of masked Tritons. Montage and some guards found him afterwards. Conner managed to pull away the mask on one of them and see that the Triton was tattooed. I assume you know as well as I that only Tritons who serve—or have served—in the royal household have facial tattoos. Which means that it was someone who had command over the Tritons, someone whom Moire had given a Triton, who ordered Conner’s beating.

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So Conner was beaten, and he turned to his ladylove Thalia, the Ambassador from Gateway, a place that has long supported the ambitions of Conner’s mother and her two brothers. She had a connection to Harga’rel. The short of it is that while Harga’rel and Thalia were investigating a way out of Rebma for Conner, who was about to be framed for various crimes, Thalia was kidnapped by Tritons.

Harga’rel and Conner rescued Thalia, killing a Triton or two in the process, and fled Rebma through the secret escape route Harga’rel knew. I think I know the way they left, though I haven’t tried to find it since I heard the tale. When they emerged into the surface realms, they were far from Amber. They found a boat and Conner brought them all back to Amber.

This was during Gerard’s regency, while our uncles were gone. We accepted Conner into the council we’d formed to assist Gerard. Harga’rel and Thalia lived quietly in Amber, he at his family home and she in the Gatwegian embassy. Nothing happened until after my father returned as King, and Valeria came to Amber and accused Conner of murdering her father. We produced him, but she remained suspicious, of course.

Harga’rel was invited to the masquerade ball that celebrated my father’s coronation. During the ball, there was a serious disturbance. Someone, or someones, took advantage of that disturbance to drown Harga’rel in the champagne fountain. Because of the disturbance, which panicked everyone in the ballroom, no one saw, and many people left before the body was found. The murderer escaped cleanly. And because of what happened during the masquerade, there were no sorcerers to spare to try to find out what happened to Harga’rel that way. So the murder remains unsolved.

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