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1 " Nicolas was dressed exquisitely tonight, with his usual air of effortlessness, in a silk doublet the color of blackberries and dotted with freshwater pearls, snug as a fruitskin against his tiny torso, and a ruff so crisply starched and diaphanous it looked to have been spun from sugar. "
― Dawn Patitucci , The Queen's Prophet
2 " The Spaniards were seated at a table by the hearth, dominating the room with their mustachioed handsomeness and aggressive good cheer. "
3 " The Queen wore a resplendent dress, with a skirt wide enough to hide two dwarfs comfortably, and a hatched bodice that looked like a gold-dipped waffle. "
4 " A lump of dread jellied in her gut when she realized what she had done, the game she was in. These men controlled half of the western hemisphere. Stakes didn't get any higher than this. "
5 " Mari's original plan to have the Queen play coy with the King was, she now realized, woefully inadequate—a milkmaid's game, played against actual military commanders. "
