Ode of the Missing: The Heartless Betrayal

A royal family was brought to their knees when mercenaries abducted their four-month-old son. The ransom was paid in gold, as demanded, but their son was not returned. Their hopes were kindled by the inherent belief that he was still alive. After twenty years they stumbled across an old American newspaper that praised the efforts of a longshoreman for saving the life of an emaciated male infant he had found among the dock's debris. Tracing the history of the child's adoption, their hopes were renewed when discovering the whereabouts of the young American. Was this twenty-year-old their biological son, the crown prince? Or was this just another empty pursuit, a devil's prank? They needed to know; at any cost.