You're more than welcome, and all of this sounds delightful. I've thought of something else helping Fritz to ly low, and Wilhelmine first with the brother grief before she learns he's alive, and also with trusting Bayreuth Friedrich enough to ask him to release her and tell him the truth. They're both getting dogs, of course. Fritz gets one from French Rottembourg instead of Prussian Rothenburg, while Wilhelmine got one from BF as an engagement present. Since it all happened so quickly, the usual round of present exchanges couldn't happen, plus his dad is after FW's money anyway, but the one thing BF knew about Wilhelmine ahead of time was that she'd lost her brother and her father had temporarily locked her up like his mother is (still at this point) locked up, so he gives her what he got back in the day as comfort, and which is easy to come by as a prince on short notice - a puppy. How about it?
Well, you know how I feel about dogs :D, and I had in fact considered giving Fritz one. The problem I ran into was: Fritz, lying low at the manor house in Masevaux with servants running around, is trying to keep to one room or at best suite of rooms, with minimal to no interactions with R's servants. This was based on the description I read of Voltaire lying low at a wealthy friend's house in the west of France, where he was locked up in a single room with nothing to do but write, curtains always closed, a single trusted bodyservant (who was bored out of his mind), and rare, secret visits from the lady of the house. So hard to see a puppy in that environment.
But! A puppy for Wilhelmine from BF would be perfect, and just the thing to help earn her trust. It will also help if he's already offered to let her off the hook, just because he learned that the King pushed her into this and the Queen hates her for it. But the dog will be extra bonus points when it comes time to confess that yes, actually, she *does* want to take him up on that out.
And then Fritz, who's been complaining that he badly needs a dog, gets to share Wilhelmine's puppy when she shows up.
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But! A puppy for Wilhelmine from BF would be perfect, and just the thing to help earn her trust. It will also help if he's already offered to let her off the hook, just because he learned that the King pushed her into this and the Queen hates her for it. But the dog will be extra bonus points when it comes time to confess that yes, actually, she *does* want to take him up on that out.
And then Fritz, who's been complaining that he badly needs a dog, gets to share Wilhelmine's puppy when she shows up.
Ha. Wilhelmine: It was an engagement gift from my fiancé, but now it's ours. Brother.
Everybody else: No comment.
Katte: I tried to be the original sibling collector, but the siblings I picked were too busy collecting each other. :P
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