“Not much free time when I have a duchy to keep and maintain.” Rafe has a fairly substantial duchy, inherited when his parents died, and kept under his uncle’s control until he was eighteen. I believe it includes a few small towns and a valley which grows barley, wheat, and rapeseed. He’s young to control so much, and my heart aches at the reminder that Rafe lost his family when he was so young. He doesn’t have anything close to what’s represented at this table—loving parents and siblings. Just his uncle, a man who seems hard, cold, and conniving. I’ve only seen the baron with Rafe a handful
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