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... ction of his aunt, Julia.

This was because his aunt’s husband, William Reinhardt, Viscount, had been a bureaucrat in the Duchy.

More precisely, he was a rather special type of bureaucrat called a “Deputy,” which would be similar to the position of Prime Minister in modern terms.

The difference was that the Deputy was appointed by the head of the Duchy — in other words, not the Duke of Kapeter but the Imperial family.

To understand this fully, one would need to exp ...

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