[...Still doesn't mean she wants his Sholmes cooties in her wine glass. At least she has the sense not to say that.]

The latter, I think. [Beatrix furrows her brow in thought, realising that she doesn't actually know the answer to that. She knows what she's guessed, but... What if she's wrong?] At least, at a point I thought that was the case. She moved stating a nearby kingdom was planning to make the first move. In retrospect, there was no evidence of that.

[...Perhaps then, her queen is simply power hungry. Can such a thing truly be? She doesn't want to think it.]

I wish I knew what thoughts she held. The truth of the matter, I cannot say, Master Sholmes.