Florencia/Story

When Rozemyne entered noble society, Florencia welcomes her with open arms as her adoptive daughter. She later helps Rozemyne gather donations for the Hasse monastery and assists in planning the charity harspiel concert, although Elvira takes leadership of the project.

While Florencia looks forward to hearing Ferdinand play, she does not have a particular interest in seeing him perform up close. Accordingly, she decides to purchase a cheaper ticket, so other noblewomen can see that there's no pressure to buy expensive tickets. She also firmly suggests that Sylvester not be informed of the details, correctly predicting that he would be unable to resist getting involved.

After Rozemyne and Wilfried swap places, both of his parents are dismayed to realize how serious the problems with their son's education truly are. While Sylvester is mostly worried, Florencia is coldly furious, both that Sylvester allowed her to be cut off from Wilfried's upbringing and that her absence had such dire consequences for his future.

She excoriates Wilfried's retainers for their failure and is the first to agree with Rozemyne's suggestions for improving his education. While Sylvester worries they're being too harsh on him, Florencia recognizes that the truly cruel thing to do would be to continue coddling Wilfried and allow him to fail in his duties as a noble.

She is deeply thankful to Rozemyne for helping to save her son's future, and highly impressed by the speed at which Wilfried's education progresses under the new curriculum. During his successful winter debut, she has tears of joy and relief in her eyes.

Rozemyne puts her foot down and begins standing in the way of Sylvester's requests to Ferdinand, Florencia is also forced to adjust to the shift in the workload. Over the winter, she helps fill the chalices for Frenbeltag by taking mana from the imprisoned Veronica and Bezewanst and sending it in feystones to the temple. Ferdinand explains that even the strong-willed Florencia has a hard time turning down requests from her older brother, Aub Frenbeltag.

When spring arrives, Florencia and Sylvester attend the Archduke Conference as representatives of Ehrenfest, leaving Rozemyne, Wilfried, and Bonifatius to supply mana to the foundation. They return with news that Sylvester's sister Georgine will soon be visiting as a representative of Ahrensbach.

During the visit, Florencia conceals her dislike of Georgine and works with Elvira to gather information on her actions in Ehrenfest. She shields Wilfried from spending time with Georgine, but to her shock and horror, he carelessly invites Georgine for a return visit just on the verge of her departure. Florencia recovers her composure enough to make a polite response. She wholeheartedly supports Rozemyne scolding him and reflects that it could be a big help for Ehrenfest, if the two of them got engaged.

After Wilfried commits the crime of entering the Ivory Tower, Florencia is anguished as his mother, knowing she can do little to protect him. For the first time, she tells her son how Veronica stole him away from her right after he was born, and tearfully explains to him how serious his situation really is. She is overwhelmed with relief when Rozemyne successfully negotiates to reduce his punishment.

When Rozemyne awakens from her jureve, Florencia has the opportunity to express her gratitude to her, both for saving Wilfried and rescuing Charlotte. She also works with Elvira on the more practical matter of hurriedly altering all of Rozemyne's skirts to an appropriate length for a ten-year-old, volunteering her own personal seamstress for the task.

Together with Elvira, Charlotte, and Rozemyne, Florencia compares notes about the new information gathered during winter socializing. She expresses her worry about Wilfried, especially after hearing that he was approached by Veronica's granddaughter Detlinde.

She later attends the Interduchy Tournament and the graduation ceremony at the Royal Academy, and she is present when Rozemyne's engagement is decided at the end of the term. She asks if Rozemyne is willing to support Wilfried as his first wife, but Ferdinand derisively advises her to lower her expectations.

In the winter of Rozemyne's third academy year Ehrenfest is making a move to purge Georgine's supporters. Since this is taking up a lot of attention from Sylvester, Florencia agrees to take over some of his other duties, like reading and responding to the letters their children sent from the academy. Soon after Florencia shows signs of an unplanned pregnancy, leading among other things for her to faint upon reading a particularly upsetting report from Rozemyne's contact with royalty and her having to stay in bed for several days.

At the Interduchy Tournament he reveals this to Aub Frenbeltag and his first wife, but only because they are family. Even within Ehrenfest very few people seem to be aware of the potential cause of Florencia's condition and believe she is simply ill. Up until that point not even Florencia's children had heard about this.

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