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 don’t understand how more people didn’t immediately assume trug was being used. Given that a similar incident has happened twice now, that’d be my first inclination.
Rather than accepting that every incident is trug related, I think there’s a possibility the attacking knights were under Magdalena’s orders and they were stopped by Raublut’s faction.
Or that Detlinde simply said something so treasonous and outright stupid, the knights lost their composure.
Even Magdalena could barely keep herself contained when talking to that idiot and barely managed to restrain herself from having her executed on the spot. All the reasons why Magdalena restrained herself from having Detlinde offed right there and then are still as valid as those couple of months earlier, so I do not think Magdalena would go for an assassination attempt… or that she’d ever do it in such a clumsy and easily thwarted way for that matter.
There’s also the issue of Detlinde whining that Sovereign knight and royals pointed their weapons at her (my bet is on Anastasius). While I can easily see how the knights might have been drugged, with the royal themselves it’s a different matter.
That being said, I strongly suspect it was a combination of both. The knights and Anastasius got offended to the point of threatening Detlinde with their drawn weapons, but then a couple of knights who had their inhibitions lowered by the aftereffects of trug lost it and attacked, without Anastasius’ permission, causing Raublut to intervene.
Either that, or it was some kind of setup to assassinate those two knights, while making it look like their deathes were their own fault.
I don’t understand how more people didn’t immediately assume trug was being used. Given that a similar incident has happened twice now, that’d be my first inclination.
Rather than accepting that every incident is trug related, I think there’s a possibility the attacking knights were under Magdalena’s orders and they were stopped by Raublut’s faction.
Or that Detlinde simply said something so treasonous and outright stupid, the knights lost their composure. Even Magdalena could barely keep herself contained when talking to that idiot and barely managed to restrain herself from having her executed on the spot. All the reasons why Magdalena restrained herself from having Detlinde offed right there and then are still as valid as those couple of months earlier, so I do not think Magdalena would go for an assassination attempt… or that she’d ever do it in such a clumsy and easily thwarted way for that matter.
There’s also the issue of Detlinde whining that Sovereign knight and royals pointed their weapons at her (my bet is on Anastasius). While I can easily see how the knights might have been drugged, with the royal themselves it’s a different matter.
That being said, I strongly suspect it was a combination of both. The knights and Anastasius got offended to the point of threatening Detlinde with their drawn weapons, but then a couple of knights who had their inhibitions lowered by the aftereffects of trug lost it and attacked, without Anastasius’ permission, causing Raublut to intervene. Either that, or it was some kind of setup to assassinate those two knights, while making it look like their deathes were their own fault.