The reason why people could make such gossip was not because they don't like the girl's mother, but because they liked the fact that the girl's mother didn't behave like the other nobles, but lived as if she was part of the people. All the people in the town she ruled prayed to the goddesses every day for this little baron family, of which there were only two members left.
The little girl's father had died in an ordinary house accident some time before the little girl was born. After that, the girl's mother started to go on royal missions much more often than before.
