It was an interesting if rocky transition. She had to earn her place amongst the royal knights, and that was not an easy prospect. Fallow had taught her well, and she had taken to her lessons like a natural. However, that did not mean she did not have more to learn. She was young, she was new, and more importantly to the other knights, she was unproven. They were not gentle. It had taken her a little over three years to earn their begrudging respect, and in that time, she had given as good as she had gotten. She had grown to become the grim, determined griffon she would later be known. As her prowess increased, the more she was pushed. It was, nonetheless, the happiest she or Amelia had been in years. The position of royal knight came with ennoblement, and ennoblement came with something she knew she could put to good use: land.