ahh I didn’t see this ask ;;
They kinda met for the first time twice lol! The /first/ first time was during the Brother’s Rebellion, where Ceyre’s uncle overthrows her father, the current king. Aldren is a soldier for her uncle and is ordered to extract her during the chaos of the castle siege. Some years later and her uncle is made king, and Aldren is assigned to Ceyre as her personal knight! They only notice each other at this point c: