PART II
Seventeen women remained after the Chosen One had finished assessing them on the day that they arrived, and it took a grand total of five days for that number to drop to ten.
The first woman, Alainna, left during dinner on the first night. She had made the bold decision to sit nearest to the Chosen One, which seemed like a sensible choice, if you wanted to gain the Chosen One’s attention and favour. Except that she lost colour as the dinner progressed, turned a sickly shade of green, and then removed herself from the room with a startling abruptness.
She did not come back.
The second woman got into a fight with the third woman the morning after. Sybil hadn’t bothered to learn their names, but she did lose a silver to Cassandra who bet her that the shorter, more slender of th
