oh dear...

[thanate]

...and for some reason I don't think this had occurred to me before, but Prince Roland has just spent the last year (half his life, I think) sulking at the bottom of a pond, having been turned into a goldfish. Because Ceridwen didn't want to kill him off just because his father threatened/payed her to do it, but that's beside the point. The point is, how the heck good a king is he going to make, with this sort of background, anyway? And Rahmah's all into high society and politics, but she only just graduated from the Mouse Academy, and has an abreviated pseudo-internship with the french ambassador. And Dunya, who's suddenly in charge of half the kingdom, has kind of got experience being responsible for her siblings, but that's about it, and doesn't really want to rule anyway. Which is not to say that any one of them isn't very much better than the current King, but still...