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It rests in the corner, dark eyes wide open.

The men working in the kitchen try not to look at it as they get about their work.

They're used to working on strange requests

for feasts, but this is a new one. Knives flash and pots and pans clang throughout the dim

kitchens of Edinburgh Castle. Kitchen maids, sleeves roll to their elbows pass by in a blur.

Their chatter is hushed,

as they feel the dark eyes on them, but they work as swiftly as if they were preparing a feast for a king. As indeed they are. For tonight on this winter's evening in 1440, the 14-year-old

King James II of Scotland is hosting honoured guests.

In the grand hall above the kitchens, laughter and the smell of roasted meats and spiced wine fills the air.

Young King James sits at one end of the table. To his right is his Chancellor, Crichton.

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