The Royal Handmaiden Who Is Doing NOTHING to Help the King Focus
Technically her job is to stand quietly in the background during the royal court performance. In practice, she has become the performance. The king has flubbed his lines seventeen times. The jester gave up trying to be funny because he knows he simply cannot compete. The royal court is in shambles and she just keeps smiling serenely like she has no idea.
The Gypsy Dancer Who Made Time Itself Stop For a Moment
The moment the tambourine music started, everyone within a hundred yards turned and walked toward it like they were in a trance. Her coin-adorned skirt and bare midriff have been the subject of approximately forty-seven heated debates between wives and husbands in the parking lot tonight. She is simply out here living her best life and the rest of us are just witnesses.
