Aggy- Book 1

he first event was Sir Laurence's exclamation of horror as he digested the paragraph which the DNI had just personally brought to his attention. She sat watching his reaction as she enjoyed Sir Laurence's hospitality, the renowned taste of his coffee blend. There had been a noticeable rise in the already high standard of the brew and the word had quickly passed around the Admiralty drawing an increase of high ranking visitors – all on official business but it didn't really require face to face – could have been handled by the Aides. The coffee was the gift of the Grenoble Defence Force Military Secretary officially - practically it was the thanks of a grateful extended family.

The thought of enjoying a cup of the renowned brew had entered DNI's mind but the decision had really been made for her when her Chief of Counter Intelligence had personally brought his report to her.

The same report was on Sir Laurence's viewer.

"This has been close held hasn't it? I never heard as much as a whisper of it."

"Nor I, and my understanding of it is that not even the Palace knows."

"She's in line for the throne and the Palace doesn't know?" Sir Laurence rather incredulously asked.

"You'll need to read the attachments, its all in there. Their claim to the throne comes through her mother, Caitlin Winsor"

"A quick summary will do, " Sir Laurence gave her the 'come on' wave.

DNI collected her thoughts and began,

"The Nancarrows breed young – appears that their 'nannys' reject the contraception until triggered by a conception and then it kicks in hard. Can be reversed I'm told but difficult. The old investigations suggest their line is not aware of it. There is a very strong female breeding line and they don't spontaneously miscarry."

Sir Laurence interrupted,

"You seen to have got a lot of genetic information in those few sentences."