At the behest of one Lady Lenna, Onna has been invited to Thavison, the queen's private residence, an honor no other common-born woman has yet received. What starts as a pleasant and dreamlike excursion soon turns awkward as the queen's attention falls to her, raising conflicting feeling inside of her, as she has yet resigned herself to the sour turn her relationship with the princess has taken. Caught up in a potentially embarrassing situation, she runs into the last person she expects to see there and is afforded an opportunity she had thought lost, but at what cost?