Many thanks to Ashleigh for commissioning this episode of The Novice. This is a really really surprising couple of chapters because shit starts to pop off way sooner than I expected.
In these chapters we meet Rothen's son for the first time, and it turns out that he's kind of a sweetie pie. This isn't too surprising, but I was definitely not expecting something romantic to sprout between him and Sonea. I have no idea how that can continue to happen when he lives so far away and visits so rarely.
And then of course we are confronted by Akkarin, who somehow has discovered that Sonea and Rothen know about him practising black magic. We know that he found out via Lorlen, but we don't know exactly how that came to happen, and Lorlen isn't in this scene so I'm a little worried about what happened to the guy.

Thank you for listening, and see you soon with a new episode!