Astra Feels Doubly Betrayed

She saw that the pinball tournament must have finished, for there was nobody using Princess Exotica, the strangely named pin-table. In a corner of the room, she was just able to make out Lord Fred, with a pint tankard in his hand. And he was talking to Sir Toby!

She made her way over to them as quickly as she could, which wasn't very. Not only would walking too fast make her even more short of breath but the corset constricted her too much for her to take anything other than very small steps. How could women in this land survive if they had to wear such instruments of torture?

As she came close enough to listen to their conversation, she was startled to hear Fred say to Sir Toby: "You have the most beautiful blue eyes I've ever seen." He was flirting with him! Not only was that shocking in itself - Lord Fred had seemed so butch and she had been sure that he fancied her - but she viewed it as a betrayal.

She still had her sword (originally Fred's), so the only question seemed to be which of the faithless pair she should slay first.

1. She stepped up to them and swung her sword at Fred.
2. She stepped up to them and swung her sword at Sir Toby.
3. She stepped up to them and raised her sword. But even that small piece of extra exertion was too much. Her vision went even dimmer and redder, and then she slumped unconscious to the floor, with the startled Fred and Sir Toby looking down at her.
4. She stepped up to them and raised her sword. The act caused her corset to snap with a sound like a pistol shot. Since firearms had yet to be invented, though this startled everyone in the pub it did not frighten them.

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