MT: That entire family belongs in a prison. Clearly.
Isabella: *looks suspiciously undistressed*
Maria Christina: Mom, I think you need to be strong now. I mean, that's what you always say, right? Country before family?
FS: We're still not letting your brother rot in Berlin. I've been there. The beds alone are a trial. Besides, it's not like we could have kept the King of Prussia a prisoner for any length of time in any regard, and an exchange as the ending of this war...
MT: I'll remind you that an ancestor of mine kept Richard Coeur de Lion prisoner for two and a half years and got enough money out of it to finance the entire city wall around Vienna.
FS: But Mitz, you're not seriously intending to leave our boy with the Prussians?
MT: Of course not! I have a plan.
Maria Christina: *disappointed* You do?
MT: A very secret plan.
*refuses to say more, but beckons onen of her new ladies in waiting to her*
*later that night*
MT to the Chevalier d'Eon, famous transgender aventurer who currently is the secret go between between her, Elisaveta and Madame de Pompadour: I need you to rescue my son from the Prussians.
Re: Lucchessini, Catt and Fredersdorf, oh, my
FS: ...the Archduke Joseph has been what?
MT: That entire family belongs in a prison. Clearly.
Isabella: *looks suspiciously undistressed*
Maria Christina: Mom, I think you need to be strong now. I mean, that's what you always say, right? Country before family?
FS: We're still not letting your brother rot in Berlin. I've been there. The beds alone are a trial. Besides, it's not like we could have kept the King of Prussia a prisoner for any length of time in any regard, and an exchange as the ending of this war...
MT: I'll remind you that an ancestor of mine kept Richard Coeur de Lion prisoner for two and a half years and got enough money out of it to finance the entire city wall around Vienna.
FS: But Mitz, you're not seriously intending to leave our boy with the Prussians?
MT: Of course not! I have a plan.
Maria Christina: *disappointed* You do?
MT: A very secret plan.
*refuses to say more, but beckons onen of her new ladies in waiting to her*
*later that night*
MT to the Chevalier d'Eon, famous transgender aventurer who currently is the secret go between between her, Elisaveta and Madame de Pompadour: I need you to rescue my son from the Prussians.