It's a later chapter in this novel where peasants finally get to learn magic at this once arisocrat only magic academy, but it's part of a conscription situation.. "Better you learn spells to destroy our foes and die than our own rich kids" etc to sum up. Richelle is a merchant's daughter who I keep putting through hell. Taken from her family, who considered her their princess, she learns to the arisocrats she's still just a peasant