THE MINUTE they heard the Duchess called my name, the guests’ attention was now on me. Even the music was gone. The ladies were being too obvious in their desire to put me down. They stopped their conversations about the latest trend and focused on me right away. I looked at them and saw how their eyes brightened as if they had been waiting for this since my arrival.
It was then when I realized that they were using a special magical item to make sure that the conversation on our table could be heard in the entire hall. If I was not mistaken, that was the purple thing glimmering near the vase. It was a size of a coin.
In my world, it would be an equivalent to a speaker. And they probably also had a recorder somewhere so that whatever I say today would be the headline tomorrow. I am more
