After a couple of days of wrestling with the idea, I’ve decided to try writing scene 4 from the point of view of a different character. While I was torn about it, the worst thing that can happen is that it doesn’t work and I have to go back and rewrite it from my hero’s perspective.
I’m writing this scene from the perspective of the Best Friend character, and he and my hero will have conflicting arcs over the course of the scene, if I can pull this off.
The scene also takes place in his home turf, the castle town, rather than the castle, itself. So, I hope his perspective will add color to my hero being out of her depth. It also lets me skip over some of her emotional turmoil from the end of scene 3, though I still need to know how that turmoil is going in order to accurately show her reactions to the events of the scene.
This is going to be complicated. . .
I still have a little work left to do on planning the two character arcs, then I have to hit the new setting descriptions tomorrow before I can start writing.