The next day, Mare explores around the palace a bit and informs us that it’s really, really big. Thanks? Also she’s briefed on what her duties will be now, or as she calls them, ‘a whole range of evils.’ As a future princess, I must meet the people in arranged outings, making speeches and shaking…

night has fallen. At home, this meant shutting down the power and going to sleep WTF do you have lights on during the daylight hours…when it’s light out? They head up from the river to the palace, and on the way Maven explains that the eastern city and the bridge are for ‘common’ Silvers. Mare…

The next day, Mare wakes up to see her maids packing. They don’t know why they are packing, however. They also still dress her in trousers, which is apparently unusual. Mare is confused by all this, despite the fact that 1) the plan was to leave after the ball anyway, that was the point of…

Mare goes back to her room, still all a twitter that the king gave a rousing speech right after the attacks instead of…cowering. Really, everything about this bit of drama makes Mare look especially silly and short-sighted. Maybe if she’d witnessed some extreme contingency plan put in place or some people plotting to kill all…

We finally get to see why Mare was let in on this little plan, because she finally gets to do something for it! After the shots, she makes the lights flicker and fail for a minute to give the rebels time to escape. And of course all her “yay, I knocked out the lights” is…