Lydia Augusta the Fourth of House Hohenzollern, Princess of Steel and Princess-Regent of the greater Brandenburg state, Protector of Prussia, Sworn-Lady of the Knights of Teuton, Granddaughter of Frederik the Great and many other titles that only nobles with way too much time could come up with, was not happy with John.
He couldn't exactly blame her. She had been back for about 20 minutes, and the only words she had spoken thus far had been "black tea" and "John, to my room". The choice of tea was remarkable because Lydia had a stance towards caffeine that was to only ever drink it when she actually needed it to get done with things.
Legs doing that energized bounce, she was rushing through paperwork and making calls for all kinds of arrangements, flowing through four different languages, German, English, Dutch and Danish, over the phone. As John only spoke 2 of those, he only understood about half of what was going on, but that was enough to stitch together the whole situation.
