..the same ghost every night..
It's been a strange time in Camallate, particularly among King LeGuin's family and inner circle. Lanselos can't quite get his head around all of it, but it's enough to know that Athyr's grief over his sister's death is compounded by the complications of family and justice that surround it. For his part, Lanselos has be putting extra effort into both helping his friend cope with a situation that seems too big to really deal with and keeping up the external face of a government that's running as smoothly as can be expected, given the circumstances.
This afternoon, though, he needs to find his son -- he's planning to delegate some of his more administrative duties to Galade (scheduling, for one, which Lanselos has always found to be both dull and sort of infuriating). Hopefully, this will free up a little more of Lanselos' time while pleasing Galade with the kind of increased responsibility the boy seems to want.
The library seems to be one of the most likely places for Galade to be, and so Lanselos heads that way. He has a way of sort of just barging into a room, and given how preoccupied he is he's already talking as he enters -- assuming that the dark head bowed over a book must be Galade.
"Galade, kid, we got some stuff to go over." At which point he actually looks. And, that's not Galade.