The Announcement

Brenda:

I averted my gaze, shifting it to my father, who drank without a care in the world. He must have placed his faith in me ,I that didn't even know if doom awaited me.

Whether the king crowned me or not, my life would never be the same after this banquet.

Magnus

"Something is wrong," Pericles my friend whispered to me.

I had been laughing with the other lords, turned to him.

"What?"

Pericles narrowed his eyes. "Are you drunk, Ser Magnus?"

I shook my head. "No, ...