Tidas, Lawrence, Nicolas, and Maevis had all been in deep conversation the entire time they waited inside the gazebo. They'd mostly been talking about what had happened outside of Skye's room, and Marco in general. Maevis didn't like him at all. The magic she'd felt from him was Ether, but it'd felt.. off. Like there was something more to it right below the surface.
During the parade, between Karena's incessant conversations; Maevis had tried to suss out information from her. She was doing well with benign things, but once they'd gotten to how she and her husband would run their kingdom, Marco had cut his wife off mid-conversation.
Karena was about to explain: "How the days of laziness for the commoners was limited", when Marco called out to her. The look of fear in her eyes made Maevis believe that the Crowned Prince wasn't as reserved and proper as he liked everyone to think. Afterwards, the only things Karena would speak on after that were superficial in nature.
