Vaelor sent four guards to the borderlands on a Tuesday.
Not soldiers. Not investigators carrying official documentation that could be traced back to a crown investigation and therefore back to the fact that the crown was actively looking for someone who had officially died years ago.
He sent four people who were very good at moving through places without being the most memorable thing in those places a skill set that was not the same as military skill and required different training and a different kind of temperament.
He had been thinking carefully about how to do this for three weeks before he did it.
