The young lady of Stützung, raised at a careful distance from her father's affliction. What Elena knows, and what she has merely guessed, is a conversation Axel keeps not having. It stands among his formal Stories: reveal, or conceal.
With the household scattered and an Eisen-born Inquisitor riding home with three generations of family history in his files, her distance from the truth is no longer the same thing as her safety. The company knows this. Her father knows it best of all.