"I start first, right?" Prince Elliott asked, to be assured while Esmeralda looked up slowly to ask the royals at the table,
"Your Highness, do you reckon it goes clockwise or anti-clockwise?" Esmeralda didn't want to be left hanging. If it did go anti-clockwise, then she was the next person to utter the word after Elliott, if it did go clockwise, then it was someone else.
For an unknown reason, her heart had been thundering hard in her ribcage.
"It is clockwise, right, my prince?" Princess Mawdelyn asked Prince Alan who smiled before nodding curtly. He replied, "It is, Your Highnesses."
However, Prince Alexander; prince of Artheca who had been secretly eyeing the valet uttered, facing directly at Prince Elliott who was right in front of him and Prince Anthony who was at the left-hand side of Prince Elliott, "Your Highnesses, why do your valet sound like a woman?"