Done and edited in!

Hot damn, Brun.  That's an amazing roll.

Gonna need it!

Meanwhile, Meara is doing her best not to squeak her disappointment in finding out she might be very, very right with her worst worries.

Aw c'mon...  Do it!

Or is Meara just not wanting to interrupt Aunty Val?

Mostly the latter.

She also doesn't want to be brought into the limelight, as it were.

But at this point, she feels super guilty about the whole thing while also knowing now it needed to be brought up sooner than later.

Meara does not like having to deal with hard decisions with no clearly good outcomes.  Hell, she'll probably take mental stress from this!
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Nobody tell the poor dear that she's going to inherit a duchy with the population of a small state that's going to be all her responsibility.

And possibly even more if Arthur and Val don't have kids.

We know they're certainly trying!

Hey, Brun is feeling super guilty too!  Twins!

Guilty for not thinking more about it.

Guilty for not reporting.

Guilty for answering and possibly painting a target on Euryleia rather than running off somewhere to live away from all this luddite discrimination that doesn't understand their love!

And hurt that Gwydion and Meara didn't feel comfortable in bringing it up with him first...  Which means, they thought it was possibly real bad....

Guilty for telling Euryleia it's okay to mess with the Old Man now that he realizes the old man is MerLN...

It's okay.  I'll bet Mimi still thinks Sir Brun is cool.

Especially if she got to meet Wigglesworth!

The good news is she didn't have any time to implement her plan.

Oh yes!  WHEW!  Dodged a bullet there.  Man, they'd be really mad if she pranked MerLN.

Amusingly (from an audience perspective), I'll bet the prank would only serve to confirm suspicions.

Ha!  Yeah...  She still could.  Right now would be awesome....  MerLN's nose starts to grow but he doesn't notice...

STATUS:

Meara: Mortified
Euryleia: Giggling madly
Brun: In even deeper trouble
Val & Arthur: Equal parts horrified and amused
Gwydion: Innocently unaware of the situation
MerLN: MerLN

FTFY

I see we typed the same thing in different words!

Perfection.

I appreciate that Meara's showing she's at least feeling bad about how she went about it while admitting she didn't know any better, while Gwydion's like "I do not understand why everyone is so worried, there's no way we've been compromised, she'd have done something by now, nobody just lies in wait like a sleeper agent, waiting to learn as much as they can before performing a sabotage at the most critical juncture!"

I'm so sorry, Venus and Avaluna, but the current heirs to the thrones share one braincell and it's lost in transit.

I think we have all learned some important lessons today...

Yeah.

If we want that polycule, we're gonna have to include some members we weren't thinking about before.

What? We're not including Uncle John and Auntie Val. Gwoss.

You're also excluding MerLN.  r00d.

It's also not a proper royal relationship without ensuring the bloodline is pure!

Give us a handful of generations, we'll make sure the blueblood aspect is literal again.

Incest is best when blue blood is the test?

I think that's how the rhyme goes.  You royals are weird.

No robot grampa please, thank you. XD