Blue Boots in Songs of Love and Death, SPOILERS for everything

[Farseer]

One oddity made me hopeful too - Timbal describes "the queen" bidding a farewell to an aristocratic couple and then when a king is mentioned I started to wonder what they were doing visiting such a minor keep... but then from the context it's clear that these titles refer to the lord and the lady of the keep.

Having not read it yet, it is impossible for me to make an informed comment with regard to the actual text or characters etc but Kettricken has never been prone to do things as they have been done by previous Six Duchies queens and Dutiful, having been raised by her as "Sacrifice" more than "King", would no doubt also do things differently than the Six Duchies kings of the past.

In this, either of them would think nothing more or nothing less of visiting a lesser keep than they would visiting a keep of elevated status anywhere within the SD or even the wider realm, I wouldn't think eg they would tend to treat an everyday citizen of Buck the same as they would treat even the Satrap. No doubt this change of behaviour/change in thinking is one of the changes that may help the world to change its current course?