He would be correct about all of that. As relatively small as Denmark was, its court was well appropriated, even before the idle, luxurious Claudius had stolen his brother's throne.

And Ophelia watches with curiosity, wondering what might happen.

She can safely say it wasn't that!

"Magic," she breathed. "It really is real here, isn't it? I never imagined such things were possible, even Mechtild was bound by what's possible in the natural world."