BACHUÉ:
"What do we have to defend ourselves?" the Queen asked.
"Eleven thousand troops…," Seneschal Jean Mercier said, his head lowered, as if embarrassed to say it out loud.
Only eleven thousand troops...
"Well, I hear you, it is time to plan what we are going to do," the Queen said.
They all looked at each other's faces.
"Don't make me disappear again," Queen Catherine spoke to me hatefully, "I want to see and hear everything that happens here."
I felt annoyance in her voice. I thought she was upset about that control I exerted over her the other night.
"Is there no room for her negotiation?" Lord Alcazar asked, then he looked at me out of the corner of his eye, "because if what they want is a CERTAIN person... we should give them that person..."
