A Couple

The maids stared at the carriage with confusion.

All the members who should be inside the palace are coming back from the carriage.

Did the knight not say that the empress's horse had an accident and they were looking for her and the princes in the woods?

And wasn't his majesty in the red palace?

Then what was the royal carriage doing in front of them?

More than that, why was his majesty not coming out?

They could see both of them sitting in the carriage through open drapes. 

The empress seemed to be sleeping but his majesty was wide awake. Yet he did not come out but kept sitting there and staring at her.

Has the sun risen from the west today? It was not like him at all.

It was a sight to be seen. Half of the maids of the palace kept bowing in front of the carriage while no one came out of it.