15. The Darkness

Complete story — includes the ending

Lady Lola, Lady Kenna and Lady Greer search for husbands at a matchmaking festival. Queen Mary fears that Lady Lola will usurp her position the way that Diane usurped Catherine, and pressures Lola to accept the first interested suitor. She later changes her mind and tells Lola to make her own choice, even if it means waiting. Greer accepts the suit of Lord Castleroy ( Michael Therriault ) despite having feelings for Leith, the castle servant ( Jonathan Keltz ).
Lady Greer has Lord Castleroy arrange for Leith to be sent to Spain for an apprenticeship, though she later rejects Castleroy and waits for a new suitor her parents have arranged for her. Lady Kenna has a threesome with a prostitute at King Henry's request, and later finds the prostitute choked to death. Queen Catherine helps cover up the incident, but worries that King Henry is ill and killed two of his lovers on purpose. Lady Olivia tells Nostradamus how she was sacrificed by peasants to "the Darkness", a fierce bloodthirsty creature in the woods that fed on her flesh and blood until she escaped. The blood pagans take Rowan as their next sacrifice.