DWP - the knight: prompt

The Knight

The beautiful Queen stands in front of the gentleman kneeling before her. She gracefully taps his shoulders with the sword, first the left, then the right. But when she lifts the sword, she starts to say something, looks around at her audience, mouths gaping, eyes unbelieving.

She giggles, softly at first which she tries to suppress it but the trembling of her shoulders could not be controlled. She bursts into a loud laughter.

The gentleman gets up from his kneeling position, swears the "f" word, and lifts his arms in total exasperation.

"Cut!" the director says. "What's going on here? This is take thirty-five, for God's sakes!"

She continues to laugh until tears flow from her eyes. The make-up artist rushes to her and tries to wipe the eye shadows that have smudged her cheeks. When after a few minutes she recovers, she faces the gentleman, his annoyance at her evident in his eyes, and she makes the sign of the cross in the air.

"You are now a knight in tights!" She starts to laugh even harder, then, putting two fingers in her mouth, she makes a loud whistle at the actor playing knight who now walks away from the set.