"Yes Ma'am." Christina replied, turning to follow her small captain. She was glad her plan seemed to have worked, but she worried briefly about the stammering man they were leaving behind, but decided he could compose himself eventually. He was a knight after all.

It wasn't ten steps later, however, that the Captain drew up short, seemingly brought to a standstill by the sight of a group of servants. To Christina, the servants seemed meek and determined to stay out of the way, but something about them seemed to cause her Captain further embarrassment. 

"Does this group upset you for some reason, Ma'am?"