Editing The Once and Future Queens (section)

==The Hunt and the Engagement Party==
[Phoenix 25]

The Hunt is Italy, and Portugal is the engagement party. 

Our general strategy is to pull roses at the hunt, and  pull top hats / leafs at the party, because it's small and the high cards will be wasted.   We can also tell the Queen to play low roses at the party.  

Managaratha talks about magic at the party and pulls a midlarge Leaf.   Vidan remarks to the Queen that Navere suggests the party isn't the most important gathering, so she will play a low rose.  The groom is from Orange, and his family is at the party, with guests from Orange with presents.  People eye the gifts, wondering about weird horrible daggers.  Stella spots a concerning sword, and thinks she's seen something like it, since she got to Red.   (On thinking about this later, that the guy who wanted to arrest Gale for sparring had one.)

At the Hunt, Gale tries to get a rose card by talking about battle magic and coordinating attacks, but this also pulls a Leaf.   So it's much more about the overt text than the subtext.  

As we seem to be useful, the Queen arranges for invitations to Admiral Jefferson's retirement party, and a Rushian tournament, both to take place on the day after tomorrow.