Richard Raspire is special assistant to Governor-General Elias Hucksteen, and accompanied the Governor-General to Charmbridge Academy's 2007 commencement in order to question Alexandra Quick regarding her father. He instructed Quick to use the Governor-General's business card to contact the Office of Special Inquisitions by pressing her thumb to either the Governor-General's seal or the Seal of the Confederation, at which point she would be contacted immediately.