Batman!

Sneaking into the Palace itself proves relatively tricky, but you discover that both of you have quite some aptitude to sticking in the shadows, avoiding the guards and slipping past all unnoticed, even though Prince Khawan seems to be decidedly clumsier than Nadia. He gets it right… most of the time, at least the times that matter anyway. You case the joint and between you, identify the easiest way in, through the great windows on the ground floor and thence into the heart of the palace. Getting there is easy, and quitely opening a window before squeezing yourself through it is surpringly simple.

Inside, you see an airy maze (who would have thought to build such a thing - they should be claustrophobic and scary, or not a maze at all, and nice and purfumed) which takes a good hour to navigate around before you discover your bearings. Nadia is instrumental in identifying where exactly get into the main rooms and where to find Queen Sibylla and her sister at their most vulnerable.

Everything is set and the Prince sets off to conceal himself and await the sisters…

You change your costume and then sneak yourself into the dining hall, awaiting the arrival of the sisters. It is some time before dinner is served, and alone in the hall you work on practicing your voice…

Servants suddenly appear and begin laying tables and after an interminable amount of faff and waste of time, Queen Sibylla and her sister are allowed to enter. Besides them and the handful of servants, the room is light on the guard, but two at each of the two big doors, and one in an alcove at the end of the room.

As the third course is about to end, you drop down, shouting “Ladies and Gentlemen, behold the Kingmaker!” impressively, stunning all to silence, even the guards freezing for the two seconds you need to leave your axe in the Queen's head, and a crossbow bolt in her sister's heart.

The Guards suddenly spring to action however, and you are force to calculate your way out. The explosion of smoke helps distract about half the guards while you bawl into the other two. Even as you leave the table, you feel a great sickness overcome you for a moment, and it seems, it feels… almost like you lose control of your body (no, Khawan's body) for a second. Then you are composed, managing a knife-thrust in one, but too slow for the other. You then throw yourself into the doors, which are thankfully unbarred, and into the rest of the Palace. It takes you a few minutes to get back onto the roof, but there you at least feel safer. Even as you have finished changing, Nadia seems to appear as out of nowhere, nearly causing you to imbed your dagger in her chest.

Escape is now crucial. With people dead and the Guards ready to kill anyone looking suspicious, there are few options. There is no easy way off the roof, but perhaps… perhaps that haystack, there. Nadia nods to it, the Prince scrutinises it for a second, then shrugs, checks his belongings on his body, and takes a running leap off the roof and into the haystack. Then landing, and out of it, and Nadia right behind them. Both considering, while in flight, for a second, why there is a haystack so conveniently near to the palace…

Then running away, over the wall and into the streets…