The King's Solution

It was the duty of a man to protect those around him but using violence against a weak and feeble young girl was never the answer.

Rutherford knew that schemes and foul play were an integral part of their noble society.

However, there was order even in that chaos.

Men dealt with men while women dealt with women and there usually wouldn't be any intersection between the two circles.

From what he had heard from his children and a few others who had witnessed the events of the coming-of-age ceremony, he could easily decipher that whatever had taken place was the part of a scheme.

When his daughter had informed him that the lady at the center of this entire mess was someone who worked for them in the past, he dug a little deeper into her identity.

This was how he was able to learn more about her identity which even the others did not know about.