Last week began with Rozemyne arranging for her retainers to come get her from the Farthest Hall. She postponed discussing her absence with the royal family until the Archduke Conference. Rozemyne discovered that she had missed the rest of the school year and the feast celebrating spring had just taken place.
Upon returning to Ehrenfest, Rozemyne meets with Sylvester to inform him how Georgine could take Ehrenfest’s foundation using the temple’s bible key. Sylvester believes that Georgine will make her move during Spring Prayer.
Rozemyne returns to the temple to investigate her bible’s key. While there she sends Damuel and Angelica to gather information and inform the lower city guard. Matthias and Bonifatius are also sent to check for signs of activity in Gerlach. Rozemyne determines that the key to her bible is in fact Ahrensbach’s bible key and was swapped when Viscountess Dahldolf invaded the temple. Rozemyne plans to immediately report her findings to Sylvester.
Will Rozemyne’s retainers discover that Georgine and her allies are near by? What plans will Sylvester make to defend Ehrenfest’s foundation? What else do you predict will happen this week?
Another problem Georgine faces is her daughter. The moment Letizia becomes the archduchess, Detlinde will be on the chopping block and as her mother, Georgine along with her by association. If she becomes the Aub Ehrenfest, while Detlinde remains behind in Ahrensbach, that would probably put enough distance between them and make Georgine too indispensible to execute. If she remains in Ahrensbach after destroying Ehrenfest however, I think her life is on a timer.
I suppose she could try to make Detlinde the permanent Aub, but that would mean defying a royal decree… and I don’t think anyone, Georgine included, would want Detlinde as an Aub, especially now that Leonzio seems to have wrested her away from the tenuous control Georgine had her under.
As an archduke family member, Georgine also can’t become a Sovereign noble, until after Letizia is made the full Aub, so she couldn’t escape guilt by association that way either, unless the royals delay Detlinde’s execution long enough for Georgine to work something out for herself, which I find highly unlikely.