"Ooooooh..." Isabelle gasped, as the men on the field moved together as one, like a living wave of people.
It didn't seem to be any kind of true competition - as even as the 'battle' started, no one, not even her husbands, explained any kind of rules or win conditions.
So this must have been...
Some kind of exhibition match among the palace knights?
Perhaps a show of military might.
If that were the case, though, then...
Phillippe...
That hopeless man...
She bit her lower lip, brows furrowed. That sweet, skittish young man...
If he was involved with something that was meant to show the military strength of the kingdom...
Running off like that would have made Nevremia look bad. Terrible, in fact, if the people of the other countries were to interpret the man's flight not of a ridiculous crush, but a tendency toward cowardice and desertion in the ranks.
She sighed and shook her head, lips pressed together in a line.