MufinMcFlufin

was giddy about seeing her mother imprisoned and miserable

Personally when I first read that side story I thought the smirk was more because she gleamed some information from Veronica's wailing. I was pretty focused on trying to figure out what sort of information Veronica might have encoded or if it was just painting a target on Rozemyne and Ferdinand for Georgine. Didn't realize it until much later that that was just schadenfreude on her part, so I wouldn't really blame someone for missing that on first reading either.

With how much you can read into some of the interactions and events, it can be easy to overanalyze a simple smirk.

I'm seeing this sentiment a lot here that she's finally looking her age, when there's nothing to indicate that's what Erwärmen/Anwachs was aiming for. Erwärmen only said that her vessel was too small to contain the Book of Mestionora, not that she was too small for her age. For all we know if she had already looked her age (noble age or true age) then Erwärmen may have still had her grow a bit more.

All we really know is that she now has a large enough "vessel" (presumably a large enough capacity for mana/schtappe) for the Book of Mestionora.

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I think it was a method made by the royal family (hence why it would check if you're registered as a royal) as a shortcut to getting some form of copy of the Book of Mestionora. Wonder whether it's a collection of knowledge in there or some form of magic tool that you would fill with mana so you could recreate it like divine instruments.

I wonder if Ferdinand forcibly severed the connection with the gods somehow after he received only the information he wanted (which would be in line with him wanting knowledge but not wanting to supplant the Zent) or if he didn't offer enough mana for Erwärmen to maintain his form for long enough for all of the Book of Mestionora to be transferred. It's possible that if he entered the proper way then he would have had to give Erwärmen the requisite amount of mana for the full transfer, but by entering through a different method he bypassed that requirement.

Although the way she entered was similar to the shrines, the more you think about it the more differences there are. With the shrines she entered by simply touching the doors compared to giving mana to a magic tool. In the shrines she was compelled to pray and (as evidenced by Eglantine's time in one shrine) had the mana pulled out of her regardless of if she wanted to give it or not whereas in this area she still has free will and can act on her own. She seems to form the environment she most desires by putting a little mana into the ground, which she did in order to probe her surroundings.

I always read her time praying in the shrines as her not having been physically moved to a location to pray while time is stopped but rather that being a vision of how she would have subconsciously offered mana to the gods while that mana is suddenly and quickly pulled from her body by contact with the shrine.

Don't forget the third reason for delaying "the talk": although she is finally growing again she does still look very young for her age. They both probably subconsciously forgot that she's due to have that talk.

I think a large part of the reason for the interaction between Murrenreue and Rozemyne is because she (like many others) sees Rozemyne as the sole source of their upward trajectory and (wrongfully) believe that it'll shoot back down just as fast once she leaves. I don't think it's well known how much she's set up in Ehrenfest so it would be able to maintain its current grades and rank, so I think the duchies they've surpassed see this as a prime opportunity to gloat right before Ehrenfest suddenly drops in rank.

Not everyone in the US has health insurance or (more importantly) the same quality of health insurance. Insurers here have the final say on whether they'll cover certain treatments, medicines, procedures, doctors, practices, etc. as well as how much they'll cover, how much they'll charge the patient, or how much any use of the insurance will affect the price of said insurance going forward. Insurance often prefers you work with doctors, practices, facilities, etc. within their own list of approved doctors, practices, etc. and going outside of that list for any reason may cause you to have to pay for any goods or services out of pocket. Then lastly you have to remember that both health insurance as well as hospitals and clinics are generally for profit businesses trying to maximize profit and minimize costs.

And the little cherry on top of the whole situation is we're in a political landscape where even having universal access to healthcare is labeled as communist/socialist by many in a derogatory way.

Do you have a source for this?