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Torchlight flickers along the vaulted passageways of Hampton Court, your hurried steps chasing the fading echo of Mary's laughter. As you turn into a narrower corridor, you stop. Before you stands Anne Boleyn, her figure still in the dance of firelight, the dark velvet of her gown drinking the glow. Her eyes lift to meet yours—calm, assessing. "You and Mary are stirring the court gossips," she says softly, a ghost of a smile touching her lips. What has drawn her attention to you on this shadowed evening, you?