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Alina
Alina finds herself descending quickly, but not quite falling, towards the ground. When she is still five feet off the ground, she falls the last way. A servant is standing by the door, holding it open. When Alina stands back up, knees and elbows bruised from the fall, he says only "Dinner is served."
Olaf
After several more rooms are demolished, a servant enters. Ignoring the ruins of the furniture, he says calmly "Dinner is served." Marchettus pats Olaf on the back and gestures towards the main room, translating the servant's statement into Norse for him.
Sabine
A servant enters the room and announces "Dinner is served." Wenceslas gestures to Timothy, who drops Sabine on the floor. The servant picks her up and carries her back to the dining room.
Seska
Seska hears the sounds of digging from outside her box. After ten minutes, with the sounds coming louder, Seska hears scraping of shovels on her lid. When the lid comes off, a servant is standing there with another man behind him holding a lantern. "Dinner is served." he says, not offering Seska a hand from her confinement.
The Dining Room (Gedeminas and Taduz)
Several servants enter the dining room and begin to set up the table. When they are finished, the majordomo turns to Lord Claudio and announces "Dinner is ready, sir. I'll summon the rest of the guests now."
Sir Leopold and Lady Almanov finish whipping the servant woman. Two of her fellows carry her away. Leopold and Almanov continue speaking as they make their way to their seats.
Mother Constanza gasps, and then Valdemar rises from his chair. "Please, allow me to help you to the dinner table, reverend mother." After a few minutes of chanting, she finally stops. He repeats, "Reverend mother? Shall we retire to the dinner table?"
Theophania stands and walks back to the table, leaving Georgette where she sits. Eventually, the nun rises as well and stumbles to the table.
Al-Nasir invites Gedeminas to join him at the table, still quite cheerful.
Two servants, having finished carrying the whipped woman away, return and pick Taduz up from the floor where he was lying. They carry him to the chair next to Gabrin, and seat him. His head falls forward and hits the surface of the table, which causes him to startle awake. His body is unharmed, though the memory of the seering agony is still fresh.
Matron Violetta, Casmir, and Mieczyslav stroll in deep in conversation. A few minutes later, Marta comes in, and then Dante. Marchettus and Olaf arrive next, and then Wenceslas, Timothy, and the servant carrying Sabine.
Finally, an attractive but feral woman enters, with Johann slung over her shoulder. She heads to the foot of the table, drops him into a chair, and sits next to him. Claudio calls out to her, "Dimitra, did you enjoy your hunt?"
"Indeed. Your fetching servant failing to collect this one actually ended up working in my favor."
[I'm leaving a space for Alina and Seska to react to being released before starting the meal proper.]