Intriguing to see how level-headed Prince Erik is being through all of this.
I keep reading his thought process through the lens of looking for hints that he's slipping up, missing a turn in his own logic that betrays his ideals and goals, but I'm not really seeing anything. It seems like he retains his faculties in a way that the other two boys didn't, and he still firmly holds to Seraphina and his engagement (and, in a sense, alliance) with her.
I suspect we'll get at least one more chapter with him, and I suspect we'll get a full(er) rundown of "the lunch incident", since we're now dealing with Erik directly and it's all centered around him. But I am intrigued by how he alone seems to be the only boy not affected by Aini in that pseudo-magical way (though I guess Bernadetta's foreign prince was also similarly resistant, for what it's worth), so I am curious of that resistance holds true, or if he starts to slip and Seraphina has to step in and "correct things".