The Archduke Conference has come to an end, but Ehrenfest’s archducal family is still reeling from the troubles it brought. Rozemyne has one year before she must depart for the Sovereignty, and those in her service have an important choice to make.
I wish we would have gotten a one detail on her doctor courses though.
The doctor specialization is part of the scholar course. So does that mean that Lieseleta took a dual education of both attendant and scholar, or that it is possible to take scholar specialization courses, even when you aren't going through the scholar course?
We know it is possible to take classes outside of your course from the first pre-pub of this book. Sylvester says one possible future for Wilfried is to take some knight classes and become the knight commander.
Not a bad move on Georgine's part. Not only did she manage to make sure that those knights would not return to Ehrenfest, where they might be subjected to a memory search and reveal information on her shady dealings, but she managed Ehrenfest look bad in the bargain.
I think Sylvester managed to at least partially turn that around and make at least some of the sovereign nobles suspicious of Georgine.
I wonder just how much those dead knights were involved with. They most likely were the ones who drugged the others that then attacked the bride-stealing ditter in their stupor and I would not be the least bit surprised, if they were also involved in smuggling at least the first Ternisbefallen, that attacked Ehrenfest's gathering spot, into the academy. Maybe they even helped the rebels orchestrate the attempt at Trauerqual later, at Georgine's behest.
By telling them to attack Detlinde, it would be pretty much guaranteed that her stupid daughter would demand their immediate execusion, without needing any further intervention from Georgine herself, meaning she could feign complete innocence on the execution. And as a free bonus in Georgine's eyes, she was able to further torment her daugther and undermine her authority, by having her excluded from the inquiry.
Ah so we did get another funeral chapter. This one delved into the tensions between Ahrensbach, Enhrenfest, and the Sovereignty. Tough to know if it was Detlinde's fault for the immediate execution or if that was the plan all along. Also tough to know if it was to hide something as Sylvester suspected, or if it was just to deny Ehrenfest the resources and create more unrule.
I can't believe anyone takes Detlinde seriously in this arrangement though, when she's excluded from something that serious and it's directly commented on can anyone really put any faith in her leading Ahrensbach? Is Sigiswald that dumb?
Also there seems to have been an mis-write in what Elvira commented on during the private discussion with Lieseleta and her father. She refers to Rozemyne as an adopted princess when I'm pretty sure that much wasn't being revealed to the father.
"You would do well to keep this to yourself, but Rozemyne is moving to the Sovereignty at the king's request." Father inhaled sharply before Elvira dryly explained the circumstances
If I had been Sylvester, I think I'd have thrown out an additional little stab at Georgine. When talking about how she might have known the ex-Ehrenfest sovereign knights, I would have added something along the lines "I hope you didn't lose any of your many name-sworn in the incident." or maybe even make that "yet another of your many name-sworn" to imply they got rid of several within Ehrenfest.
Even someone as dense as Sigiswald would surely get the implication and Raublut most certainly would.