Ren had learned at some point that Seraphina and Jeannette had also been quietly scooped up and placed securely under Julius's massive and now untouchable political wing.
The Prime Minister prince was actively shielding them from the desperate, scrambling politics of their declining aristocratic branches.
The girls now held quiet, comfortable, highly respectable positions within the administration, completely insulated from the ruthless marriages and unscrupulous maneuvers their families had intended to use them for. Seeing Cassia standing here on the Wall, holding a comfortable administrative post with direct access to Selphira as a patron, cemented that intelligence as an absolute fact…
Neither Matilda nor Cassia approached him to speak.
They were sharp, highly trained operatives now, and they knew it was foolish. "Red Pathfinder" absolutely could not be seen having a casual, familiar conversation with high-ranking emissaries from the inner castle.
