>>5830156The nervousness and anxiety overwhelms you. In your mind you can almost see them now, the parade of grotesque, haughty and contemptuous Highborn faces, attired in the garish panoply of formal ceremonial dress from across a thousand worlds and a thousand disparate dynastic lineages, their faces all united in gloating at the stuttering and hesitant incoherence of your speech.
All at once, they turn their faces together in unison, in meretricious mirror-like motions that reflect a shared gloating pleasure at your utterly public and unconcealable mortification.
Then, in a rising chorus of snorts and guffaws, whispered insinuations and disparagements: the assembled audience laughs at you.
