There's one more thing you wonder. "Who commissioned the King of Icemere in the first place?" Your tangled thoughts from the evening before crystallize at that moment. It can't be an accident that the play the anonymous patron commissioned was guaranteed to create some kind of fuss. "They set us up, all of us."
Matty meets your eyes gravely. "I don't know. I wish I did. You're correct. This was a setup. I don't know if the mystery patron got what they paid for or not, but they certainly got a disaster. And before you ask, no, I can't find out. I've already tried. They paid an agent, and the agent paid us. They're not telling."
You nod. "Politics."
"Yes." Matty shakes her head. "Who knows what they wanted? But what they've got is a bust of a play. Think about it while you're on tour."
You'll definitely be thinking about this while you're on tour.