As the illegitimate fake daughter of house Oaken Staff, the girl was glad to see the Princess gone. Whatever she saw on tour must have been enough because the princess agreed to smooth things over for the heir.
In the end, seventeen children joined a newly constructed school/orphanage. A dozen male children were taken to serve in the nocturne army, a program where the young kids were raised to fulfill a soldier's contract against the monster tides for four years, in exchange for food, wages, care and shelter into adulthood. Most were reunited with family and those that had none were sorted into existing institutions. Seventeen as the overflow was considered good by most standards.
