The utter disregard for traditions here was incredibly overstimulating for one who literally had tradition and etiquette beaten into him. And despite Ah Duo 's statement this morning at breakfast he knew she wanted to leave Maomao and the Moon Prince here, regardless of what it would do to them back in the palace. But she wasn 't there day in, day out, lessons in calligraphy, swordsmanship, elocution, diplomacy, history, and all the other subjects he and Suiren had to push and prod into the young prince 's mind. Would all that work really be for 'nothing?