A curious crowd gathered around the future king in the town square. Serenica had never seen so many different people in one place before – there were poor peasants and homeless people, merchants, and whatever nobility had not been killed during the revolution, and then there were all kinds of men and women who did not belong to those categories. Serenica saw that women's fashion still favored showing one's hips but nothing else, and the men had adopted a strange position, standing with hands clasped at about the height of their family jewels, legs wide apart.
This notion amused her, but she had to be moving. The court gathered around Spade so that he could still be seen from all directions.
As some servant brought the actual crown, everyone fell silent.
