(no subject)
[Filter: Private, in Atsirian]
I wonder if we're too late. Surely they've begun the ceremony, by now ... if we've missed it entirely, I fear the Queen may never forgive the slight. Mother says she will smooth the situation, whatever it may be, and a late entrance is more dramatic, to be sure, but ...
Mother says ...
... I wish she would tell me what happened. What he said. She must have spoken with him, caught up to him and discovered something. And it's been so convenient for her since then, knowing that we were so pressed for time. I thought we had an understanding. We were working together, were we not? And --
[a long pause]
Is that the wedding procession? The crowd seems too -- are they angry? [another pause] They are. They are. Why would they be upset? What has --
[Filter: Mother, in Atsirian]
Mother, do you hear them? Something is not right.
I wonder if we're too late. Surely they've begun the ceremony, by now ... if we've missed it entirely, I fear the Queen may never forgive the slight. Mother says she will smooth the situation, whatever it may be, and a late entrance is more dramatic, to be sure, but ...
Mother says ...
... I wish she would tell me what happened. What he said. She must have spoken with him, caught up to him and discovered something. And it's been so convenient for her since then, knowing that we were so pressed for time. I thought we had an understanding. We were working together, were we not? And --
[a long pause]
Is that the wedding procession? The crowd seems too -- are they angry? [another pause] They are. They are. Why would they be upset? What has --
[Filter: Mother, in Atsirian]
Mother, do you hear them? Something is not right.