Slave Sophie could not understand what they meant, Aurora and the King, and did not dare ask.  So completely had she forgotten herself and her place within the dream-prison of Balthazar that she did not remember the princess, beyond that one flash of recognition, did not remember her father besides knowing him to be a traitor,l and dead, did not even remember anything before the beginning of the fiction, in the prison cell.  She shuddered, to hear them speak of her so, knowing that they had some dread plan for her, even if their words made no sense.<br/><br/>Aurora withdrew from Balthazar, to arm's distance away, and pulled the spectre back, towards the bed.  "Not as a slave," she said, her voice sultry, low.  "As a Queen. . .but take me, grandsire.  You have not yet had your release."