Chapter 123 - -||chapter one hundred twenty three - let's talk (2)||-

"Once upon a time, when the First Princess was but a child, her mother, the Empress, regaled her with a tale most amusing about a band of mice who, in the absence of the princess's cat, held a merry feast within the palace walls. The First Princess and her sister, the Second Princess, roared with laughter upon hearing the age-old adage, "When the cat's away, the mice will play!" Today, as the First Princess found herself in analogous circumstances, she couldn't help but be reminded of that very quote.