Mary is in Scotland, alone with only Greer and a half-brother she barely knows at her side.

She has realized she doesn't know how to trust anymore.

She has realized that she is just a girl, a girl who wears a crown and says brave words that more often than not, she doesn't feel in her heart. And she is young, and she is afraid. She is alone in a viper's nest with only one person to call friend, and a brother who may or not be able to be trusted.

And it doesn't even matter if he can be, because she doesn't know how to grant him that trust.

He smiles easily at her. He does most of what she asks of him. Most of it.

You have sought to destroy every alliance I've worked so hard to build -

The only alliance you should have is with me!

Never all.

They tell her he will turn on her. He is a Protestant, and once he held the reins of power in Scotland. She rears her head and bites back at them, but deep inside, she knows she believes them - because for all his easy smiles and seeming obedience and encouraging words, she remembers another castle across the ocean, another place where people smiled and said pretty things and then they stabbed you in the back.

She sees him with John Knox and he says he is working to protect her.

She does not believe him.

You proved to me that -

I don't have to prove myself to you, I am queen! And your job is to serve me!

But she does. She does, she does, she does. This is a land of people that do not know her. They do not trust her and she does not trust them. She loves them, for they are her people, but she does not trust them.

Perhaps. But you have a long road before I trust you again.

Only she never had to begin with. She is a liar.

She is alone and she does not know where to turn.