Vince's feelings for Aryka doesn't seem genuine, more like he's trying to hold onto him because he is afraid of losing his mental support.. Blurred date of death probably means Aryka's body might still be alive..
Wouldn't cutting her hair short, dyeing it other colour and keeping it properly under the head-cloth help her to hide better ??? It's always a mystery why people on the run keep their original look intact..
As a Duke's daughter, she is fairly well known, so her family would be in big trouble for hiding a blond, blue-eyed woman. But if she openly becomes a nun half a year prior, nobody can blame the family, and she can not be drafted.
Used to hide them in folders named books, pdf etc.. Ahhh the memory ~