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Though Lee-John had waited patiently, throughout a long hiatus,
He was yet concerned that Ambloome held a grieving widow status.
He could not forget the sight of her, when she had first appeared
From the ocean depths and saved him from the fate that he had feared.

Such an image was emblazoned on his mind. She’d looked so striking.
If she’d loved a tiny Englishman, he hoped she’d love a Viking.
He decided to suggest a meeting she might not construe
As a date, unless her heart had feelings there to follow through.

So he asked someone to summon her, but found her agonizing.
When she told him of the reason, what he learned was quite surprising.
Wondalyn, the leading palace cook had brought some evidence,
Which had seen officials charge the queen with serious offence.

So the judge and court officials ran the show, and prosecuted
Nonvor, calling Wondalyn to speak, when facts became disputed.
Her exhibit A was photographs of Nonvor’s rendezvous
With her former son-in-law (named Lester), sharing time for two.

Then the queen was charged (along with the departed) with conducting
An affair. Her lawyer’s actions were soon deemed to be obstructing,
As he tried to quosh the charge. So he was then found in contempt,
Sent to dungeons for a day to prove that queens are not exempt.

So the second charge proceeded, that the queen had been unstable,
After Lester broke it off, and had then knocked him off the table,
As a woman scorned. The jury found there was no homicide,
But believed her guilty of the said affair, when she’d been tried.

So the judge declared that it was time for Nonvor to be banished,
Nonvor left the palace, with her personal fortune. Then she vanished,
Telling Ambloome that she planned to go and live in her abode,
That she’d had, before she’d met the king. She took her horse and rode.

She did not know how she could have been suspected of such malice
With the husband of her daughter, by a person in the palace.
She moved in, and took to gardening, using herbs to cook, and sage.
After weeks, she had a visit from her former palace Page.

Nonvor’s youthful Page boy Zellit learned from Ambloome (and went riding)
To her house and said, “What’s done to you I cannot be abiding.
I’m no lawyer, but I filed appeals, if I can represent
You in court, I think that I can show who really had intent.”

“I believe in your sincerity,” said Nonvor, and invited
Zellit in for dinner, trusting that the wrong could now be righted.
She prepared a bed, which got him through the night, and then the source
(Of her newfound hope) accompanied her, as each did mount their horse.

Though pre-occupied with all he’d need to do, while they were riding,
To reverse the cruel usurping of her throne, with judge presiding,
Zellit felt a sense of sweet detachment, riding past the streams,
In the company of the damsel in distress of all his dreams.
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