Portrait of Babylon as Queen Anne
“My lady, thou knowst what this will entail, yes?”
The woman pulled up her long black hair as the women around her fixed her hair into braids upon her head, “I do. Now set everything as thou knowst before ‘tis too late, Henry!”
“Right m’lady!” Henry said and ran off.
The woman to her right, working on pinning a braid asked, “I must say Your Grace, do you think’t really work?”
She smiled and looked at the young maid from the mirror, “Of course, the woman rarely left her chambers, let alone the castle. All those who knew her by face and not by word shall be paid off or removed...
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