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"Wow!" Kathryn said, looking dazzled "That is wonderful!"

"You think so? Really?"

"Chris, you look beautiful The ice-blue really brings out your eyes"

Jenny looked up "I thought your eyes were green"

"Neverfelt right Nothing was too tight She could breathe Success!

Horrance pulled theit over her shoulders "There!"

"Ooooooooh," the princesses oooohed

"Outstanding Horrance, really, you’ve outdone yourself"

"Thank you, Jenny" He rubbed his hands together "I’ fortune this year" Then he clapped a hand over his hed

There was another knock on the door, and Nao for everyone," she said Then she gasped when she saw Christina "My lady! You look "

"Like a big icicle?"

" wonderful!"

"Well, thanks," she said, pleased "Thanks for the snacks, too"

"My lady, the minister would like to see you, if it’s convenient"

"How’d you get out of having a bishop uys?" Alex asked "That’s standard protocol for royal weddings, right?"

"Easy Cray was the devil I knew, as opposed toyou kno it goes I put my foot down about that one Send him in Jenny, have a sandwich You do not look well, pardon ive ht isn’t even onyou to pitch face-first into the carpet Or e"

Horrance and his assistants left, after ad everyone not to breathe or move or touch There was a rap at the door and Minister Cray called, "May I come in?"

"C’mon in!"

He was, if possible, even paler than Jenny, except for the two hectic dots of color on his cheeks There was a sheen of sweat on his forehead which he continually wiped aith a handkerchief "Your Highnesses Jennifer My lady You all look lovely"

"Thanks Have a sandwich"

"No, I--I’d better not My stoo over a few things with you As in rehearsal, I will be asking you some questions, and then--then I’ll--as we did yesterday, I’ll--" He fumbled with his note cards and sprayed them all over the room

"Whoa! Easy there, Cray, you look even more freaked out than I feel"

"I’ve never been on television before," he said weakly

"You’ll be fine Come on, you’ve done this a million times"

"Not conduct an historical event, he hasn’t," Kathryn coht-eyeds You’ve done a s"

"Yes, I--that’s true I--oh! I alive this to you" He held out the dark blue velvet box, and Christina took it

"Thanks" Nohat the heck was this? She opened the box and nearly gasped It was a choker, set in platinu as the first joint of her thumb set every two inches "Ohover her shoulder "Huh That turned out great"

"Turned out?"

"David designed all the jewelry"

"He did?"

"Well, sure Did you think he just called a catalog and had the?"

"Yes See, hoorks is, when I said all the jewelry, I meant all the jewelry"

Christina put a hand over her eyes, then jerked it away, s I I"

"Cruelly rejected?"

"Oh, shit Sorry, Cray"

Alex shrugged "Eh, it was good for hie"

Kathryn snickered