LADY CECELIA’S STORY Eight years ago, I was eighteen years when I was brought to the palace as a concubine, I willing joined the contest then because I wanted to get away from my family, they treated me like dust, like a particle they can’t see, they don’t feed me nor ask about what I do or eat, they go to work early and come back in the evening shouting they were tired all around the house. They don’t keep food at home so that I won’t cook, they buy only what they wanted to eat that night, I was a nobody. I decided to confront them one day about why they would be maltreating me and if they weren’t my real parents but they confirmed that they gave birth to me but I was an unfortunate child "Unfortunate?" Abigail cuts in Yes, they said when I was given birth to my father lost his job a

