AUDREY
I did not trust Shanti when she said we were going to the annual ball dance together. I was not fit for the room. I was only human and a slave. It was a place for nobles and dignitaries. Anyone who was not noble came there by the first invitation from a noble. Shanti had told me she would transform me into the beautiful woman I was. In her words, she had said she would let out the goddess in me.
I did not believe anything beautiful would come out of me until Shanti did her magic. She had traveled everywhere and knew every beauty tip. She had washed me up in ways that I never imagined, brushed my hair, and straightened it out, she had let me watch myself as she transformed me. When she was done dressing me, I could not recognize the woman that stared back at me in the mirror. I h
