At 08:27 AM 28/3/96 -0800, The Queen wrote:

The queen is waiting in the garden alone.  She figures that four more
minutes is all she can stand.  Then she hears the shriek of one of the
loyal protectorates and the sounds of battle.  "Oh, damn, it's
Sir Virgo and Pancelot again."  She gets the bandages ready.
"Who will be maimed this time?"

Aside by court jester spira: Pancelot? You mean Pants-a-lot! Hee hee!

Prince Panda breaks through the shrubs and bushes leading towards the garden
gate. He spots the Queen in her flowing robe waiting anxiously.
She turns to him and he kneels before her. He takes her hand and kisses it
tenderly.

Prince Panda: My Queen. I fear that our meeting shall be brief this eve. One
of my old. . . partners shall we say? . . . is hot on my trail and shall be
upon me before long. We must use this time wisely to plot the King's demise.

Queen Foxtrot: My loyal knight. Why must the king be killed? Can we not
continue our tryst discretely as we have so far? Death is so . . . so . .
.final.

Prince Panda: True, but the King is not who he seems. He is actually . . .

Sir Virgo: Aha! I have found you knave! Unhand the Queen and throw down your
weapon!

Prince Panda: Alas my love I must go. But I shall return soon with a plan
that will someday see us walk through this garden gate together, hand in hand.
[The Prince kisses the Queen's hand tenderly again, and then leaps over the
low stone wall around the garden, with Sir Virgo following closely behind]

Queen Foxtrot: Alas, am I to find true love only in the kiss of a rogue who
cannot spare me but a few shards of his life? [Weeping now] What cruel die
hath this life cast for me, that I should be wed to a man I do not love, nor
keep in my heart? I pray deeply that someday my knight will somehow find a
way to end this shackling of mine heart, and release me from my bonds unto
the green grass and meadows beyond this stone wall. [Looking around the
moonlit garden with tears in her eyes] Such is my fate; to be a flower in
a walled garden, beheld by eyes that know not my true nature or fragrance.
Until tomorrow my knight . . .

Panda

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