"What a lovely couple you two will become!"
The emperor laughed heartily while Luis and I were kneeling before him inside the throne hall. We had our heads hung low because looking up without permission could result in death. I kept silent while the emperor talked about how we were match-made in heaven, how he had a good eye and just a continuous boast of as if we should thank him for matchmaking us.
'This shameless dog,' I grumbled inwardly, as I never thought that I would hear this man's voice ever again. 'He put two strangers in marriage and he was talking as if we should be thankful. I want to tell him if not for my effort and Luis's, this marriage was doomed from the very beginning.' — it was already going that way, though.
