Goodness goodness. It seems our queen is quite the temperamental woman.
The queen has formed a theory. After 20 of the black moon student's lives were cut short by our young prince, our queen and her mysterious maid have formed a theory that our dear prince must have an aid. A protector if you will. However, we know that is not so. We also are introduced to some darling new characters. The G** of the sword, and his chosen mortal predecessor (I may be using the wrong word here)
(Apologies for the shorter summary, your dear summarizer is tired, as it is 4 am.)