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Earl looks to Zara, "Are you okay? Ivory took a gamble"

"I pushed him to."

"Huh," Earl says a surprised look, then kind of proud, "Wow. You are bold"

"Well, I couldn't be the one to do it."

Vashti says "A noble court refusing to hear anyone without a title? I am stunned "

"point to you both" Earl says, "But I'm still going to give my lovely lady a great deal of credit for this victory, if you don't mind? So back on your pedestal, Zara."

Faux command

She sticks out her tongue at him.

"You're beautiful when you're defiant too." And he tries for a kiss... which she can, if she wishes, easily dodge.

Vashti tisks "Sirrah, in front of her own sister? We are ladies good sir. We must appear reserved, refined... and never mind what happens in the garden."

"Hmph!" And she kisses him back!

Vashti cluthes at her pearls and hides behind a wing

Earl enjoys the kiss all the more for Vashti's protests. It's probably the unseelie angle of it