Personally I'm all for dumping Eike for 3 months with avictimtutor.
Options are!
Her grandmother (boring but safe)
Our wizard dad (not elf wizard dad, more exciting)
Belegar (safe but be a brain screw for belegar to twist)
Aunt Heidi (much fun to be had there)
The elfs! (Probably a bad idea)
It would admittedly be a hell of a power play to leave out apprentice with the Empress, but I do not think that is the kind of attention we or she needs.