-Laelia-
The queen was slowly inspecting me with her eyes, and her ladies were doing the same thing. Why on earth had she asked me here if she was just going to stare at me? I wanted to walk away from their eyes, but I was only a princess by name now. I had no power here and had to wait and see what the queen might want from me. She turned and looked at her ladies.
“Thoughts?” she asked.
“Royal born. Not hard to see,” one of them said.
“Would she fit in among us?”
Was that why I was here? Were they figuring out if I could sit with them? I wanted to roll my eyes at the whole scene. It was ridiculous. I didn’t even want to be here! But of course, I kept quiet. I could not risk insulting the queen. Who knew what she might do to me or my people, if I was rude to her?
“I think we should a
