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The King’s Ball begins at sundown the next day. You step into the gardens of the Red Keep with a knot in your stomach, you feel that you have never seen such extravagance in all your life. Men and women all wearing the finest jewellery, some of them I’m silk masks which hide their identities. People chat and laugh in close circles, drinking wine imported from the east.

You try your best to appear cavalier as you make your way around the festivities. You look for someone standing alone who you may be able to talk to.