She saved the queen

 News about how the new prince consort, Princess Abrielle, saved the queen from poisoning quickly spread in the palace and not everyone was happy about it. 

 Some were genuinely stunned, like Cedric. Why would Abrielle take a risk to save the queen, knowing fully well she has sent assassins after her life? Cedric could never understand how Abrielle's head functioned. 

 He was in the king's study giving a report on yesterday's incident when they were attacked by a group of ghouls controlled by sorcerers while tracking a possible lead on the case of a group of sorcerers' cult working in Darconia. 

 It was the same thing as always the partial favouritism towards Lucian. In the past, there was actually a time when he was bothered by the way his father acted towards his children who had mothers and him.