Valery gritted her teeth in frustration. She doesn't have any blood farms and only Viscounts can have them, right now she can't apply for any farms. The specific reason is that she is known as a Baroness not a Viscount.
A flame burns a forest in silence and if it makes noise it will be extinguished.
Valery knew that it was best for her to be silent for now, if she were a Count....
Things would be very different in many ways, in any of the higher ranks Valery could afford many different moves. But Valery is not there, so there is no need to think about what she could or could not. Since today in the present she is a Viscount.