Despite knowing Aria’s Kaine Tully in a past life, he sees right through her entreaties for procuring her wedding, turning her down flat with the excuse that his wares are not becoming of an imperial crown princess. While initially bewildered by such a stonewalling, Rishe remembers the opening Kaine gave her before departing. Kaine said he and his men will remain in town for a bit, so Rishe dyes her hair and sneaks out of her villa.
Rishe drinks all of Kaine’s men under the table before he even arrives, leaving the two alone for negotiations. Rishe obviously can’t tell him her overarching plan to prevent her death, but she can tell him she wants to be a trading partner and ally, not merely a customer. Kaine agrees to give her a week to come up with a business plan that’s worth his while.
She sneaks back into her chambers to find Prince Arnold waiting for her. He’s not mad—he made clear she can do what she will with her time—but isn’t enthused about her going out alone in the dead of night unescorted. If she has future business in town, he’ll accompany her, without interfering in that business. She prepares him a midnight snack of soup with medicinal herbs, lamenting that she’s a terrible cook, but he enjoys it and they eat it all together.
Before bidding her goodnight, Arnold asks Rishe if she’s met his younger brother. She hasn’t, and he warns her not to entertain him if he shows up. One minute we see this brother smirking in a seedy tavern, the next he’s waking up in Rishe’s garden plot. Introducing himself as Theodore, he has the face and voice of an angel, but gets close to Rishe and tells her he intends to “save” her from her hostage status.
Rishe would like to dig further into what exactly Prince Theo’s Whole Deal is, but she only has a month to come up with her business idea for the Chief, so she tables that for now after her bodyguards are unable to even tell her how the brothers get along. She does accidentally walk in on Arnold ordering the armies be brought into the city to protect the commoners. She notes that this Prince Arnold, who seems to be forcibly enacting policy to benefit the commoners, isn’t the same prince who killed her.
Upon retiring to her chambers, Rishe finds a sealed note ostensibly from Arnold summoning her to the chapel at midnight to “tell her a secret.” But Rishe wasn’t born yesterday, and when she arrives dressed down in mourning black, she fully expects Theodore, not Arnold, to be there.
Honestly I would have been content to watch Rishe get into the nitty gritty of researching the capital in order to develop the most profitable plan, but Theo makes for an enticing wild card, adding palace intrigue to what has so far become a not-very-laid back seventh loop. But let’s be real here: Rishe isn’t one to just laze about, as much as she says she might want to.
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