![]() ![]() On the way, Sophia bumps into her friend Liv who is excited to have won a palace-approved replica fairy godmother wand. Little girls cry at those, they don’t want to turn out like them. When they lose, they receive ugly step-sister-themed items. Rushing through the Bicentennial Celebration on her way to the seamstress, Sophia sees little girls playing Cinderella-themed games, winning fake palace-approved merchandise. Sophia wants to run away with Erin, start a life together, but Erin won’t. If they are even caught in the woods, they will be paraded through the streets in shackles, possibly stuffed into a cage in the center of town and be subjected to humiliation for daring to step off the path. ![]() They have no say in who they wed, they have no control over their lives, no income, no property, no rights. It is the law that every girl must attend the King's annual ball where they shall meet their husband. Lille follows the traditions of Cinderella laid down in her story. When they finally pass, both girls breathe a sigh of relief, but it was awfully close in ending in disaster. The guards are joking about the most gorgeous girls in a generation who will be attending the ball, perhaps their wives may have an “accident” and they will get to choose another, prettier, younger girl. ![]() In the forest on Lille’s eastern border, Sophia presses Erin up against a tree, hiding them both as palace guards walk past. ![]() Cinderella has been dead for two hundred years. ![]()
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