“So much like your father,”
Is this foreshadowing? I think this the reason her mom is putting her in the riders quadrant. Because something's fishy she was supposed to be a scribe. Now all of a sudden mom throws her to the riders quadrant so what happened? Why the change?
I think that dad died over a year ago and his death sparked something that made her mom move Violet to the Riders quad. Vi starts training six months later, she starts training for the for the riders quadrant because her mom made this decision.
I think she protecting her daughter.
