As the courtiers wait to take the stage under the light of hundreds of candles for Nate's production, Brad and Walt can hear the hubbub of the audience behind the makeshift curtain, the tension rising in anticipation, waiting for the start of the show. The production is being watched by all the courtiers who aren't participating in it. Catherine and the king have spared no expense to showcase their court, and it's beauties, on the eve of Princesse Margot's wedding.
"Remind me how we got press-ganged into this again?" he whispers to Walt as they wait in the wings. It was certainly a far cry from their training and their usual tasks and duties working for Sir Francis, but their boss insisted that they participate, and play the game, however alien it might be to them.
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