The King looks pleased with himself while everyone else looks filled with dread. This must be his new approach to making us all get along. Since the family dinner was such a bust, he must be hoping that we will all be better behaved in the grand hall, in front of all the contestants. Maybe he is right, but that doesn't mean that anyone is going to enjoy this, not me anyway.
"Myself, the Queen, and my concubines will be dining at another table tonight, it's time we all got more acquainted too." My mother sighs angrily beside me. "So, if all of my children stay seated, and everyone else move beside someone that you haven't got to know yet. Let's go." He claps his hands again, getting everyone on their feet.
I have two empty seats on either side of me now. The other siblings that were all
