[Pitchwife]

"I wish you luck, if you decide to continue your suit", Brinn said with a sigh. "Just please don't try to push things until the show is over."

Before Coldan had so much as a moment's time to digest these words, Sereth came bursting into the wagon and shrieked with a voice like a pubescent Nazgûl, "What? Why? What happened?"

Startled that Sereth, of all people, should get into such a seizure about the matter of him and Asta, he stared at her in incomprehension as she collapsed against the wall in what seemed like an unconscious imitation of her portrayal of the Ringbearer pierced by the Witch-King on Weathertop and went on: "That's what she came to say, right? That her father and the King don't... want us?"

Vait a moment", he said, suddenly realizing that Sereth had to be talking about something completely unrelated to their previous conversation. "Vat do you mean, zey don't want us? Who is she, and vat does she hev to do viz ze King?"