Paige had been grinning through the entire coronation ceremony. She could tell that a majority of the rest of the crowd was undergoing a wave of emotion, most likely involving some variations of shock, fear, anger, and so forth... They had good reason to, and her joy was somewhat dulled by that knowledge, but she knew this was for the better. She knew Gideon would be a good king now, and she knew Cadence would be an even better queen. She trusted them, wholeheartedly.
She got to experience quite a bit of shock there at the end, too, with the bit about her Jensen now being the Emerald prince. She had to cover her face to hide her excitement during that part, and immediately as the crowd began to depart back into the ballroom, she shoved and elbowed her way through to catch him as he stepped away from the newly crowned couple.
She saw a couple of guards begin to reach out as she rushed toward him, as anyone running in the direction of the mostly hated king might be concerning, but she stopped just at the bottom of the steps as Jensen stepped down and she immediately glued herself to his arm. “Did I just watch you just get adopted?”