Micheline gave up.
She'd done her best to keep up with the wave of introductions that followed the arrival of High Inquisitor Ignatious and the man named Thane, who no one bothered to mention was the General of the Armies of the Bloodroot Empire until she'd asked if he was the captain of Nyrielle's guard, the way the Oak Witch seemed to hold that position for Ashlynn.
He didn't seem bothered that she'd made the mistake, and he'd very politely introduced her to Lennart, who actually held that position, along with Zedya, whose position as Nyrielle's 'handmaiden' seemed almost as important as Thane's position as a general, though no one explained why.
It was when she met Nyrielle's executioner, Dame Sybyll, who was actually a Lord Governor despite using a knight's title, that the cracks started to form in Micheline's emerging model of power in Ashlynn's world.
