[Ladies Sunroom]
"Haven't you all noticed?"
Everyone turned their heads around to the person who had spoken up amidst the serene quietude, which was apparently Lorelei.
"Noticed what?" Yesenia asked, who was laying on a velvet chaise lounge near the sunlit windows.
"The Princess's drastic changes in her recent behavior. It's all so strange," Lorelei continued as she browsed through a book. "Do you all remember how she used to be a month or so ago?"
"Oh right, I remember," chirped Christabel, removing her teacup from her lips. She beckoned a maid to come forward and refill it for her. "Didn't she used to be rather..."
"Reticent? I thought so too," Lorelei said. "She never used to come up to us or start a conversation with us until very recently. She always kept to herself."
