JHeart
Here’s the next guess. Adrienne might get some small mini pardon for “saving Veah’s life”, depending on how she explains why she even did it in the first place. If she reveals the truth of Jian’s mother’s death, she might also get some pardon in terms of contribution, although her intentions were to ignite a war. I mean, this war was going to happen regardless since the Fae killed mother dragon. They might let her be imprisoned in a nicer place and accede to her dying requests since she is going to die anyway because no cure for this poison, unless author wants to save this woman for some reason like added drama hehe. Anyway Narx probably hates Adrienne for her evil and everything she did, so like Veah, it’s possible to reject and honour his chosen bond. Honestly it’s better than random elf girl or someone who is not evil because Veah will confirm push Narx to his bonded. I doubt Adrienne will have feelings for Narx. she is too ambition crazed to have genuine feelings. She might try to latch onto Narx as a dying lifeline tho. But Veah might still be shaken and who knows, Xenon takes the opportunity to swoop in.
I guess a submitted scale CAN be retrieved under specific conditions. But Adrienne is going to die though (allegedly), and she has betrayed Menarx already so he'd be hard pressed to accept the mate bond. Unless it scrambles the "fated pair" into an illogical hot mess.JHeart! JHeart!! JHeart!!! How many time did I call you? This is the 3rd ill-fated mate pairing you've written. Whatever goddess is responsible for fated-mating must be doing so using billard balls or something.