Grasping at Grace (and Growth)

Or their feet get so cold they can't think every time they sit down in the Court. Or they end up having to raise the infant children of their children or grandchildren, and thus have to leave the Court. Or they realize that they accidentally wrote down the wrong thing and meant to say the opposite and resign in shame. Or every time someone talks to them, they sound like Gilbert Godfreed and they have to resign to live in a Monastery...