Journal Entry 18

20. Juli 2020

I know Fräulein Heng meant well, but by putting two of Dorstenland’s most notorious tabloid newspapers on my desk this morning, she inadvertently started my day off on the wrong foot.

One of the tabloids insinuated that I played a role in the disappearance of my wife and children. The other tabloid’s front page had a target symbol superimposed over a picture of the royal family, with a headline that read “Are They Next?” During times like these, I question humanity.

Our domestic intelligence service, Dorstenland Geheimdienste (DG9), continues to receive reports from all over the country with sightings of Karina, Otto, and Emma. The reports range from the three of them together to only individual sightings.

This afternoon I received a phone call from Dmitry Ivanov, the Russian Ambassador to Dorstenland. He informed me that intelligence obtained from Russian’s SVR indicates that my family is no longer in Dorstenland. SVR reportedly is in communication from a credible source that my wife and kids are being held on a ship in the Gulf of Finland, somewhere between Tallinn, Estonia and Helsinki, Finland.

Around the same time that I was on the phone with Ambassador Ivanov, King Jonas received a call from President Putin, who told him the same information. President Putin assured the king that the SVR was doing everything it could to confirm the intelligence.

My head is full of questions right now. If my family is on a ship, was this ship docked initially in one of our ports? Were Karina, Otto, and Emma secretly flown out of Dorstenland then transferred to a ship in the Gulf of Finland? What if they are not on the ship? What if they are right under our noses in Eberbach?

On a side note, Jonas and I have decided that it would be best that he does not try to convene an emergency session of parliament as he previously had. Until we know the whereabouts of my family, the last thing we want to do is provoke Prime Minister Northcott into jeopardizing Karina and the children’s safety.

I know in my heart that the prime minister is behind the kidnapping. I will stake my life on it.