Divorced by Dawn, Queen by Dusk — Book Two: The Blood Crown
Chapter Thirteen: What Sophia Knows
The sovereign claim recognition moved through the legal system in the days following the meeting with the particular momentum of things that have been thoroughly prepared. Arthur had anticipated every procedural challenge the Castellan trustees might raise and had built responses to all of them before they were needed. The trustee charter authority was suspended pending federal review of the amendment's validity. The heir recognition petition for Elliot collapsed without the trustee framework to support it. Sophia's custody arrangement was reinforced by a family court order that Arthur had secured the same morning, processing it alongside the sovereign filing in a piece of administrative dexte
