EIGHTEEN
Princesses who danced their shoes to pieces? And a king who was so insistent upon knowing why that he would hire a man just to solve the mystery of the worn shoes?
Even as Vasco trudged up the road to the palace, away from the comfort of Kun's cottage, he shook his head in disbelief. He had seen the town of shoemakers, so he knew there was some truth in these princesses who wore out shoes faster than a soldier wore out boots, but there had to be more to this mystery than first appeared.
Why else would Kun have given him so much advice? She'd told him to refuse any food or wine that the princesses themselves did not consume. If he wanted to know what the girls did at night, he must enter their bedchamber before the door was locked – as though he dared enter a princess's bedcham
