Sadie wasn't kidding about Madame Hippolyta giving out so many orders. Judith was disgusted of how this hippo could boss around her seamstresses like this but she kept her cool as she had to remind herself that she was undercover at the moment. For the last couple of days, Judith had follow the Madame's orders even if she wasn't the best at sewing and when the hippo was gone she got to know Sadie's friend, Fru-Fru.

The shrew was a very good seamstress and Judith found herself asking for her help a few times which caused her to be confused.

"Sadie, you're a master at this, why do you need my help all of a sudden?"

"Oh, um, I've been really tired these last few days, what with following Madame's orders…"

Fru nodded, "You didn't seem to be yourself when you came back from doing those errands. Madame shouldn't be putting so much on you. There's only so much you can do after all."

Just then a fox came in carrying some loaves of bread. Fru-Fru greeted him.

"Oh, hello, Gideon!"

"Miss Fru-Fru. Sadie."

Judith gave a stammer, "Uh, hello to you, Gideon."

"Are you alright?" he asked in concern, "You don't seem to be yourself."

"Isn't she?" said Fru, "It's all Madame Hippolyta's fault, she's exhausting the poor thing!"

"Well, eat these, I had some leftover from today's business so it should help get you back some of your energy."

Judith took a loaf, "Thank you…"

"And this time, I'm staying put so Madame Hippolyta doesn't do what she did last time by taking that pie I gave you."

"What?!" Judith ended up shouting causing confused expressions on the mammals and she caught herself, "Uh, I mean…"

"Goodness, you really are exhausted…" said Fru-Fru.

Gideon shook his head in frustration, "I hate seeing you like this, Sadie. I wish I could free you from this prison."

Aw, that's so sweet… I wish Sadie had told me about knowing a fox too, that's another similarity we seem to have, and apparently he seems quite taken with her. Hopefully, once I pay for her debt, the two of them can get together.

"Thank you, Gideon, but I have a feeling that time will come sooner than you think."

"That does it!" exclaimed Fru, "Once you're done eating, you're going straight to bed! Your exhaustion is causing you to have delusions!"

"I have to agree." Gideon nodded.

Judith couldn't help smiling at the wonderful friends that Sadie had and wondered how she was doing.


For the last couple of days, Sadie enjoyed palace life. She always got breakfast in bed, maids came in to dress her, in which she was pampered from head to toe. Of course, there were some downsides. She now understood why Judith wanted to get out of the palace. There were lessons and banquets to attend to. In the lessons she had a hard time keeping up because she wasn't a good writer or reader and the other princesses and princes would try to strike up a conversation with her and it felt awkward.

There was another banquet tonight and Lord and Lady Otterton were the guests of honor. Sadie looked down to see the various silverware in front of her and she wasn't sure which spoon, fork, or knife to use to eat. She looked at her temporary sister's plate and tried to copy her.

Pauline noticed this, "Are you alright, Judith? You don't seem to be yourself these days."

"I'm fine." she insisted even though she was fretting of being discovered so soon.

Lady Otterton was sitting next to her and addressed Sadie, "Judith, how are things going between you and Nicholas?"

Sadie worried for a little until she recalled what the princess told her about the fox prince, "Fine, in fact, more than fine! We're doing great!"

"That's wonderful to hear." said the lady.

Lord Otterton then spoke, "It certainly is, given we hear King Piberius has taken ill and it's most likely he will not make it and Nicholas will have to take over soon, which means he will need a queen."

"Oh, that's so awful…" Sadie put her paw over her heart and starting drinking from a gold goblet.

Lord Otterton kept speaking, "Indeed, in fact, we have been asked to send a message to your highnesses."

King Stuart inquired, "Yes?"

"Given the king's frail health, he requests that the marriage between Princess Judith and Prince Nicholas be done by the end of the week. And that the queen and Nicholas are on their way right now."

Sadie had spit out her drink in shock when she heard that and everyone turned to her as she coughed.

The queen questioned, "Sweetie, are you alright?"

"I'm…" she coughed, "fine! I'm just overwhelmed by the news!"

Stuart nodded, "That certainly is understandable, after all we didn't except the marriage to happen this soon."

The queen said, "But with Piberius being gravely ill we must honor his request. Besides, weren't you always saying to us that the wedding couldn't come sooner?"

The king smiled, "And now you got your wish!"

The other princes and princesses were now excited as they talked about the upcoming wedding but Lady Bellwether was the only one that noticed the princess who was getting married to the fox gave a look of horror. And found that to be very interesting.


Lady Bellwether was down in the dungeons talking to a couple of rams by the name of Douglas and Woolter, and told them what she saw at the banquet.

"Maybe she's got a case of wedding jitters." suggested Douglas.

"I don't think so… that was a look of being appalled. Which is very odd, because just last week Judith told me she wanted this wedding to happen but now that she's getting it, she's feeling upset by it… Something's very odd here and I'm going to find out what it is…" she quickly left.

She walked down the hallway and was about to knock on Princess Judith's bedchamber door when she heard talking and pressed her ear to the door to listen in.

Sadie was pacing in the bedchamber and muttered, "Oh, this is bad, very bad… I can't marry Prince Nicholas! And just imagine the horror on his face of finding out he married a fake! Oh, Princess…" she went to the window, "Please come back… You don't even have to pay me for this anymore, because you need to be here to see your betrothed."

Bellwether's eyes widen in shock and an evil grin spread across her face as she thought, A fake! She's a fake! Princess Judith must have found a lookalike and then switched places with her! Oh, this is perfect! Just what I need to prove this marriage was wrong from the start!

When she got back to the dungeons she told her assistants of what she had discovered. They were quite shocked by the news.

"Here's what I need you to do, I want you to go out and find the real princess and bring her here. As long as I know she is kept out of the way, I can proceed with my plan."

"Right, milady." they said and headed out.


It was the next day, as Sadie was being fitted for an extravagate wedding dress and that caused her to remember the time she sewed wedding dresses for other brides that were happy to be getting married but for her it was unhappiness since she knew nothing about Prince Nicholas and that it was Princess Judith that rightfully deserved to be fitted for this beautiful gown. To make matters worst, Judith's sisters came in gushing at the beautiful gown.

"It's gorgeous!" exclaimed Pauline.

"It is!" agreed Abigail.

"It's the most beautiful gown in the whole world!" said Juliana.

Even the younger sisters boasted how they will be the flower girl for the wedding and that caused a fight that the older sisters had to break up, while Sadie just kept a forced smile on for them.

Meanwhile, on the streets, Judith was asked to draw a bath for Madame Hippolyta and she remembered watching how her maids did it with her so she had some idea of how to draw a bath and but where was she going to get water from? Then she remembered passing a huge snow bank from when she first came to the dress shop.

She was scooping the snow into a pail when her ears picked up the sound of trampling horses, she turned around to see a carriage approaching, that she knew she had to get out of the way and once she did a splash of mud landed on her.

As she wipe it off her face, she saw the carriage from the back and to her horror she recognized who it belong to.

Nick?! Here?! No!

In the carriage, Nicholas and his mother were traveling as fast as they could to get to the palace, and Nick had noticed a small bystander in the road until they moved out of the way when the carriage moved pass them he looked back and could have sworn that was his Carrots he covered in mud. But then decided, I'm probably so anxious to see her again that I'm starting to see her everywhere.

Judith could feel her knees giving away, as she saw the carriage getting closer to the palace. She was shaking her head in sorrow.

Oh, what have I done?