[ She clamps her lips shut again, focusing on keeping her breaths from becoming too hurried and shallow, but the buzzing is only growing louder, and she is truly pale as a ghost. But she can't stay silent long, a scoff being released as she settles her hand over an arm rest, gripping it tight.

She isn't burned, then. And the news carries no relief. ]

How did... How did His Majesty care for the Princess Elizabeth once my— [ A sharp inhale. Release. ] Once my sentence was carried out? I know of her eventual grandness, and how Mary did her utmost to keep my Elizabeth from her rightful throne. But...how did her father handle the case of his own, sweet daughter?

[ Why does she even ask? She knows, she already does, for Mary herself is a prime example. She was treated so unkindly and her mother was only banished. For Elizabeth to have a mother who committed high treason? However could she have remained loyal to her mother, when Henry himself did not? ]