In the different part of the castle, Catherine identified it from memory as a path that leads outside the castle into the woods behind the castle, Mary used it to sneak out boys that she brought to her chambers when she was younger.
The castle, so old, that even her father wasn't aware of its existence, his family having conquered it generations ago, that hardly anyone knew about it.
Leaving Mary to discover it one day when Catherine was with her and they used it to sneak back into the castle after sneaking out to spend time with some suitors.
She thought her chambers once belonged to the originator of the castle, building it for his own deviousness, as politely as Catherine can word it, considering her stake in this, and never uttered a word to her father about it, for obvious reasons.
Nobody knew about it except them and Mary thought it'd be best if they made sure their suitors wore coverings over their eyes, ensuring that they couldn't pinpoint exactly where the girls took them, and they couldn't rat them out if they felt brave.
It's been so long that Catherine's been in the passageway last, that the walls used to be taller than her, now not so much.
"You said you had it in the bag!" Theodore continued his argument with David telepathically while walking.
David turned to him as he insisted, "She got too handsy for my liking and I don't think it was the wine!"
Leering at him, Theodore pointed out that David said he had her wrapped around his fingers, to which David asserted that he did, it's just that he didn't want Mary pawing him like he's a piece of meat.
Not to mention, Jenny!
"And I don't see you schmoozing royalty!" David fired back that if Theodore didn't like the way he did things, maybe he should've taken lead, see how Mary thinks of a wild haired man with icy blue eyes that even makes serial killers uncomfortable.
Staring at him, Theodore hissed that that there's nothing wrong with his eyes, they're fine.
"Any more pronounced, Rodney Dangerfield would have competition!" David snorted as he teased Theodore's eyes wouldn't have gotten the same attention as David's did by Mary.
Theodore hissed that he didn't need to advertise himself like a piece of meat just to get an adventure done, but David pointed out that he didn't hesitate calling in a favour, either.
"You said you specialized in this!" Theodore pointed out that in David's words, he knew how to go about this sort of adventure because he dealt with it plenty of time, which David says is true, doesn't mean that he did it all the time.
Looking at him with his chocolate eyes, David said, "I don't invite you every time I had a bout with Daleks, do I?"
Shaking his head, Theodore exhaled as he asked calmly, "Did you find out what happened between her and Cole?"
Nodding, David calmly said that he did, Mary bargained with Cole, and said something about a shell was passed to her. Didn't get too much details after that because of the incident causing them to run away.
Harkening back to what Lila found, Theodore showed David the cloaking device, and David affirmed that indeed that must've been the shell that was talked about. Mary might've not known what it is, but knew how it's tied with Cole.
"Cole said he passed it to her on good judgement, bad call if you asked me, and that since he "married" Catherine, he wanted it back," David says how Cole passed the cloaking device with the belief that once Catherine married him, Mary would return it to him, and that'd be it.
Shaking his head, Theodore sighed, "They always fall for that, don't they?"
Nodding, David sighed as he mentioned that it's one of the common themes he sees in his adventures. Always the same way, too, and only a few had them written down on paper, fewer had it notarized.
You'd think after the umpteenth time it happened, people would learn, by now.
"They almost never do," Theodore sighed.
There's a burst of fresh air that passed by them, taking them out of their telepathic conversation, they're close to the exit, and Lila asked Catherine where they go from there.
As she walked, Catherine said that there's a path she and Mary used to take that led to the crossroads where they went into villages where they met up with their suitors.
What they'll do when they escape Mary and her guards, Theodore has the smoking gun, but he can't compel Mary into admitting guilt on her own.
His cogs turning, Theodore concluded they needed to do something that would force Mary to tell the truth, in a way she can't double back from it, or deflect, something that she can't easily escape from.
The only way he knows how's luring Mary back to the family castle with the court there, using them against Mary. With him and David, they'll be able to use Mary's mind against her and influence the court.
Of course, they must account that Mary would do everything in her power to discredit them at every turn, so much she'd use her personal history with the court into believing her over them.
Then, there's Cole, who they must consider as he's an alien, if they simply tell the court this, they'll mob him, and Theodore doesn't want any needless bloodshed.
However, if it'd prove his point and Cole's willing, showing the court that Mary conspired with a devil into getting her way, well, that'll make things interesting, because they won't understand what Cole is, and they'll be too frightened to listen.
Use their sensibilities against them, prove Mary's a deviant in their eyes, let her talk out of that, see what she'll say, then.
Her trying to point at them's expected, but Theodore didn't get this far only to be thrown in the dungeons until execution.
"What're we thinking?" Lila called to him as they escaped into the forest behind the castle, Catherine guiding them to the crossroads where she says there's a path that'll take them somewhere they'll have privacy away from prying eyes while they recoup and recover, with Catherine says she never ran so much since she was younger.
Looking over to her, Theodore tells her that he's plotting in using Cole's likeness against Mary, painting her as a deviant of the church, something fierce that Mary wouldn't have a chance defending herself against, and with him and David, they'll twist the court at every step until Mary can't do anything but stutter.
"Oooh, I think I did that once in Bohemia!" David recalled an adventure where he had to use the devil to scare people into believing him when he dealt with a nasty case of a runaway fleshy Dalek that escaped its destroyed chassis and tried to reconvene with what it found.
Didn't take much at all, once they saw how ugly it looked, and how it sounded.
"Cole, I need to know, what was the purpose of you giving her your device?" Theodore turned his attention to Cole as he stumbled while walking with the four towards an area that Catherine mentioned.
Scratching the side of his disguised face, Cole said when he started talking with Mary, he gotten the idea that she wanted to exchange her necklace for the cloaking device, since she was interested in it, so he simply took her necklace when she was with a guard, and kept it.
"Ho-hold on, you have her necklace?" Theodore looked at him with his icy blue eyes glistening under the shaded cover of the pine trees while they recovered from their escape.
As he nodded, Cole said she gave it to him in exchange for the cloaking device.
Reaching down into his disguised pocket, Cole brought out a necklace, it didn't seem anything extravagant, a simple bronze necklace with an oblong shaped bronze pendant.
Looking at it closely, Catherine recognized it as the necklace she gifted to Mary some years ago, it had the family crest on the pendant, nothing else like it existed, no one would replicate it.
Mary never took it off, even when they grew older, but now, there's internal conflict in Catherine's eyes that show her embattled over her feelings to her cousin.
"What're the chances that she says Cole stole it?" Lila pointed out that Mary could've easily tell the court that Cole stole it from her, but Catherine says that Mary never would've let anyone take it, she wouldn't even take it off when she was with her suitors.
Sharing looks with Theodore, Lila summed their silent conversation, "Well, she'd have a hard time explaining why she had a change of heart."
Formulating his plan against Mary, Theodore concocted a story that Mary went to the Devil (Cole) in order to banish Catherine from her rightful place as the queen, and in exchange for the totem used to evoke his power, she gave him her necklace.
With their psychic papers and his and David's telepathy, well, they have ample ammunition against Mary.
Testimony from Catherine of Mary's attempts to essentially marry her to the Devil, well, she's done for.
As Catherine listened to the plan, Theodore noticed the look in her eyes, and he tried to comfort her, that it wasn't her fault.
She tells him, it's not the betrayal.
"All this for a title," Catherine threw up her arms. "Wage war over treasures, betray me for my family's lands, sack us for our castle, fine, but a mere title?"
Upset, Catherine paced around the hidden grove they've taken as she rubbed her hazel eyes.
Uneasily, Lila says to her as she sat on the flat rock, "It happens more than you think. Titles come with power; power attracts all the wrong people."
Turning to face her, Catherine responded that she can't believe one title's enough to cause all this mess.
It wasn't like she was becoming the king; she was becoming the queen. Mary knows that if she gets married to an English king, which Catherine knows for sure that'll happen because Mary's family had dealings in England securing a marriage to a prince, her coveted title won't mean much in the way of bylaws.
They're not Lizzy.
Never were.
Mary would've become queen, sure, but she won't have the kind of pull she thinks she has, and that's putting it mildly.
Catherine knows what's in store for her as queen, the way she acted to Theodore and Lila since they've met, her way of clawing some control back before her own future wedding and the inevitable life she'll lead in the shadows of her king.
Sensing there's more to this disposition, Theodore prodded, and Catherine says that she wished she was never in the line of succession, because of it, she lost her father and her cousin, if she could've forgo it entirely, she would've.
She only went along with it for her father's sake, but the more she thought about it, she wished she changed her mind.
Maybe if she did sooner, none of this would've happened.
Her father wouldn't have been accidentally killed and Mary would've seen the truth being the queen isn't all what she thinks of it.
"If she wants the damned title, let her, see what good it does for her!" Catherine exhaled as she rubbed her teary eyes before Lila slipped her a Kleenex to wipe away her tears and blow her nose.
Since they known each other, Catherine thanked her politely.
Lowering his head, Cole apologized profusely to Catherine about his role in the mess, if he hadn't been so driven into restoring his people on earth, he would've realized sooner that Mary tricked him, maybe he wouldn't have agreed to go along with her plan.
Her hazel eyes looking towards him, Catherine accepted his apology, stating that Mary lied to them both, and her father's death wasn't his fault, Mary misled him, probably to blackmail him, probably to throw him to the wolves, at this point, Catherine doesn't have enough in her to muster.
Blinking, David mused, "You'll let her become queen, after everything she done to you?"
Shrugging her shoulders, Catherine said that if it's the only way for Mary to see how much she truly lost than she gained, then it's her wish.
Cogs turning in his head, Theodore mused that this could help make things more interesting than using the ploy that the Devil did it.
"What's on your mind, spaceman?" Lila looked over at him as he came over to her with his hands clasped together.
Seeing the cogs in his head turning, Lila heard him say, "She wants to be queen, right?"