i read it the first time lol regardless of the era, there is still other ways to ease up helaena’s hostility like idk? let her see her daughter often? do not isolate her? it’s not a matter whether they knew the concept of mental health, it’s knowing the right tactics
not to justify force feeding helaena but lowk what DO you do when someone’s starving themselves because of a mental health crisis but it’s also medieval times. you can’t exactly put in an IV.
“I don't think she knows fully that Helaena is dead, but I think it's just this huge pang of intuition. Something awful has just happened, and something has severed, and she doesn't know what.”