Chapter 13

We sneak back to our guest bedrooms, it is nearly nightfall and I know that soon we will be escorted to dinner. Charles takes his leave back to his room, and I prepare to attend dinner with the queen. I am just finished when a guard approaches and knocks on the door. “The queen requests your presence at dinner”. I nod my head, I already expected this. We stand in the great dining hall awaiting the queen, once she enters we sit, and dinner is served.

I stare at the feast presented to us, roasted elk, butter rolls, and various garden greens served with a glass of red wine. Everything looks very delicious, if I were still human, my mouth would be salivating. we dine with the queen and exchange pleasantries. The evening lingers and dinner winds down. Everyone is escorted into a parlor to socialize, I start to let my emotional fog slip to her when she is not expecting it. She is talking with Charles, I know that he is distracting her, she is completely unawar