The knights were doing guard duty when Thy, the palace butler told them to hurry to the palace grounds.
"What exactly are we being told to do in the courtyard?" asked one of the young knights, probably recently inducted as a knight.
"Just do it! Don't ask too many questions!" said another.
They formed a semicircle in the courtyard of the king's palace. A semicircle that had been going on since morning. By noon the knights who had been on guard were getting tired. They even started gossiping about the hallucinations the king was experiencing.
Until the chariot with the Lucsor family crest stopped in the front yard of the king's palace. Everyone got ready, thinking that they were actually assigned to welcome the incoming noble families.
Although there were terrible rumors that Lady Lucsor had gone mad and demanded that her engagement to Prince Gerome be annulled, until now the annulment decree had not come down.