Princess Alexia drops her meek act and offers Yoric an alliance to help him claim the throne. Yoric resists, bitter about a war injury that cost him succession because of his crippled legs. Alexia insists that if fate won't give them justice they must seize it, pushing him to fight. A wounded woman named Lexie then appears, saying she pulled Yoric from a battlefield and won't survive. Courtiers point out Lexie is a country girl, not the noble Alexia, though she feels familiar. Yoric is left uncertain whom to trust.