He didn't waste much time watching the surrounding fae, to be honest, instead part of his mind was busy panicking as he realized that he really was both meeting the Queen, and in front of her court, which was a hundred times worse. He took a deep breath, which was when Blossom rather abruptly yanked him forward, and he was glad he had, cause he was in the middle of them all, and had their complete, total, and undivided attention.<br/><br/>It was worse than the ceremony where the President had presented the medal, and had been in front of more people, and on the news. At least there he only had to worry about embarrassing himself or the service, but here the 'audience' were armed to the teeth, and more than happy to blast him for the slightest misstep. So, instead of attempting to blunder through their ceremonies, since the Queen had told Blossom to not blast him for being odd, he decided to instead circumvent the entire thing, and do it his way. That way, no one could take offense at a misstep, because he was running a completely different route.<br/><br/>Well, no one but the Queen, or the Princess, or the Crone, or the two females off to one side sizing him up like a haunch of beef and not much liking what they were seeing, or any of the other fae behind him or beside him. He shook off Blossom's arm with a subtle twisting of his own, and instead went to parade rest. Once Blossom finished speaking, he snapped to attention and then threw a textbook perfect salute. "Ma'am, Tech Sergeant Caiaphas Murphy Kilgore, reporting as requested."<br/><br/>He held the salute through the reporting statement, and then for a pair of long heartbeats, before dropping it and moving back to parade rest. And then waited for the first lightning bolt.