“Is she really the Princess?”
“She looks nothing like Queen Tulip.”
“Maybe the Duke made a mistake? She’s a little… fat.”
With all the chittering going on around her, it wasn’t hard to rouse Meryl. She decided to ignore them, till she heard a comment about being fat. She was annoyed because it sounded a lot like something Shelia would say. So she opened her eyes and what she saw was not what she was expecting.
“Arghhhhh!”
Of course, everyone else in the room screamed with her, seeing her scream so suddenly. The door swung open and Sylin came in, eyes alert.
“What’s the problem?!”
“W-W-What are they?” Meryl stuttered, pointing to the women gathered at her bed. No, it was incorrect to refer to them as women.
Their skin was very similar to a green veiny tree bark. Their eyes were
