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AYLA MARIN

I survive the feast: I look without seeing, I hear without listening. Even the food, more food than I've ever seen in my life, doesn't taste good in my mouth. I should be filling my belly, enjoying the best meal again, but I can't. I can't even speak when Thomas whispers in his calm, even voice to comfort me:

_____________ You are doing well - I try to ignore it. Sitting at the crystal table, I drink a sparkling golden liquid until my head begins to to spin. I feel like a traitor. What is my family having for dinner tonight? Do they know where I am? Or is my mother in tears waiting for me? Instead, I'm trapped in a room full of people who would kill me if they found out the truth. And with the royal family, of course, that the king would kill me if he could, and probably will one day. She turned me inside out, traded ragged wrestler for crown, rags for silk. Yesterday I was a mere commoner and today I am a princess. What else will change? What else will I miss?

_____________ Enough
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