"Alisyrrabel!" exclaims the queen. "Explain at once!"

Promise laughs, first, which is enough to have the queen very alarmed. "Right this way," she tells the queen, and leads her through the gate and shuts it.

The queen follows. "Explain!" she repeats.

Promise then she makes a candied dewdrop, well beyond the Queen's ability to cough it up. "Tell no one any names you know," she says.

The Queen opens her mouth, and finds herself unable to speak.

"Find your former vassals who will obey you without enforcement and dissolve your court with their help as best you can," continues Promise.

"Explain!" snaps the Queen.

"No," grins Promise, and she flutters to the top of her tree, and breaks off a branch, and flies and flies and flies and flies.