Josef/Story

Myne first meets Josef when she goes to the ink workshop to research coloured ink. He is yelling at Heidi to "finish her work first." When told that Heidi has a customer, he reacts with shock. Once he understands what is happening, he works hard to help Heidi and Myne to do their research.

When Heidi becomes sleep deprived and intrudes into a paint workshop, he is the one to calm the situation down. Once the initial research into coloured ink has been completed, Heidi urges him to use it to obtain his beruf certification. He tried to make Heidi take the credit. However, Heidi knew that it would be best for Josef to run the workshop as foreman, as she did not want to think about business issues.

During Rozemyne's coma, Heidi, with the assistance of Josef, diligently continued her research and managed to develop a varnish-like fixing agent that can be applied on top of ink to allow an additional lays of ink to be drawn or printed on top of that, without the two colours mixing.

When they meet Rozemyne again after her return from the Royal Academy, Heidi in her excitement forgets she's in the presence of nobility and behaves very inappropriate, leading to Josef harshly scolding her and mentioning that she is a mother now, much to Rozemyne's surprise and astonishment.

Josef and Heidi are originally supposed to accompany Lady Rozemyne to Kirnberger in the spring after her third year at the Royal Academy, but then Heidi becomes pregnant with her second child. At a meeting in the Temple, Josef relays this news to the High Bishop and she gives her permission for the pair to stay home and send a different representative in their stead. In the end the workshop decides to send Horace, whom Josef introduces on to Lady Rozemyne on the day of the departure.

After her third year at the Royal Academy completes, Lady Rozemyne informs her Gutenbergs that she will almost asuredly have to leave Ehrenfest in the spring of next year. Unlike most nobles, she leaves the decision of whether the commoners wish to come with her, or remain in Ehrenfest to them, rather than commanding them.

While Josef himself isn't particularly eager to leave his home, he doesn't beliefe he can stop Heidi from going with Rozemyne, no matter how hard he tries, so reluctantly agrees to go with their patron to whereever it is she's going. Briece isn't too happy to lose his successor and daughter, but agrees that this is the best way, or "leave this research-addicted, money-draining idiot with her patron" as he put it.

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