(Caius)
Sorin looked toward Amos once more.
"You've told us how the letters arrived."
He paused briefly.
"Tell us what happened after Alpha Rodan received them."
Amos thought for a moment before answering.
"He always dismissed everyone."
"Everyone?"
"Yes, Elder."
"Even you?"
"Especially me."
The old record keeper lowered his eyes.
"He would remain alone for some time. When he finally called me back, the letters were gone."
Pryor spoke.
"Gone?"
"Yes."
"What did you assume had happened to them?"
"I believed he had secured them with his private papers."
"And later?"
"I searched every place where those papers should have been stored."
He looked around the chamber.
"I never found a single one."
Halvon frowned.
"So every letter delivered outside normal procedure vanished."
