I can't quite seem to get the opening paragraph of my fantasy novel right. Could you give me some feedback please? Many thanks in advance.

On the morning of Ascension Day, the Fool was worried. When one of the palace lions threw up half a deer carcass on the Darnish carpet, he strongly suspected that something was amiss. When Lady Elspeth’s charm lantern exploded in her face, temporarily covering her in iridescent scales, he started to fret. And when the Queen’s stallion, Aristarchus, kicked one of the stable hands in a private place, he was almost sure that trouble was on its way.
If the Fool had known what really lay ahead, he would been stunned.