PrePub - Ascendance of a Bookworm

With that final sentence, I think it's pretty clear that Raublut is aware of the connection between Schlaftraum Flowers and trug... but I am still not sure, whether he took those flowers to investigate, and kept everything top secret, because he suspects that someone really close to the royal family is involved, or whether he himself is the involved and he took the flowers to destroy evidence.... though I am leaning more toward suspecting him to be the traitor.

What really had my jaw on the floor was, that after defeating the feybeasts, for who's appearance Ahrensbach is one of the prime suspects, Raublut allowed his soldiers to receive sexual favours from Georgine of Ahrensbach of all people! This more than anything makes me lean toward him being the traitor... but then again he is so obviously being shifty, I feel like he's a red herring...

Either way, if we found out that Georgine (or rather her servants) drugged the soldiers at that occaion, to gain information from them and then used the trug to make them forget it, I would not be the least bit surprised. Neither would I be surprised if one of the students who studied under that herbalogist turned out to be Fraularm.

But I don't think Hortensia is in any immediate danger yet. With her being the sole archlibrarian in the royal academy, she has become a bit too high profile to suffer an unfortunate accident, without raising a bit too much suspicion of her husband. Not to mention she already passed everything she knew to Anastasius, so the damage is already done and getting rid of her won't help anymore. Of course with the magic contract, she can't exactly tell her husband that she already told Anastasius everything she knows... so there is some danger probably.