When Grim and the prefect are evicted from Ramshackle Jack approaches Leona about them staying at Savanaclaw, which Leona refuses (Jack: “You didn’t even pause before answering…”)
Ruggie volunteers Leona’s bedroom to the prefect and Grim despite Leona’s disapproval, saying, “I still ain’t fully healed up from the interdorm Spelldrive tournament, y’know? I dunno if it was that major magic I chugged a whole potion to use or what, but hard work’s been wearin’ me down more than ever lately…So I’m thinkin’ I’d heal a whole lot faster if I had these guys waiting on you for a while!,” and convincing Leona without needing to invoke his near-death experience at Leona’s hands directly.
Leona is the only character to voluntarily surrender to the Charon at the start of Book 6 of his own accord, telling Ruggie that he is in charge of Savanaclaw until he gets back: “Then again, I can’t be sure I’ll come back at all…”
Ruggie does not seem pleased about being left in charge, saying that he drew the short straw, but Rook assures him, “It means the Roi des Lions has great faith in you…The dorm is his pride—he knows he can trust you with it.” (Ruggie: “Trust doesn’t fill an empty stomach. There better be some T-bone steaks in it for me later, or it won’t be worth it!”)
Leona says that the King of Beasts “hired outcast hyenas and gave them a central role. He hired based on talent and didn’t get all hung up on his crew’s backgrounds.”
Leona says, “Sounds logical enough to me,” and it is an interesting contrast to Leona’s own situation where his talents are irrelevant to his role due to his background.
In Leona’s dream of Book 7 he replaces the palace’s retainers with hyena beast-people that seem to terrorize the citizens (Kifaji: “I won’t let you profess ignorance of what they have been doing in the city”), but in Ruggie’s dream he attends a hyena-majority school that provides free food to all who visit, established by Leona.
In Ruggie’s dream Leona graduated from an unspecified arcane academy and then returned to Sunset Savanna where he established schools and spelldrive teams all over the country.
Ruggie says, “The younger generation here likes Second Prince Leona way more than First Prince Falena,” but in his dream he and Leona have never met.
When Ruggie awakens, students of darkness try to convince him to stay asleep by saying he will never go hungry again, and they are “in good with the king. Would you betray that connection?!”
Ruggie responds, “I’d rather decide for myself who my king is,” and then just before traveling to Leona’s dream tells Jack, “Guess it’s time to refocus and wake up our king.”
After Ruggie hears the details of what it is that Malleus has done he says, “Malleus is definitely gonna fold…to Leona!”
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