The crown glowed under her finger, and she should have been suspicious, but being a fourteen-year-old, she didn’t really mind it much and was eager to put it on her head. She had been surprised when the council and elderly members selected her to be one of the final candidates to try the crown out this year. She was more surprised than the people around her. She didn’t know why she was being selected when it was obvious that the council never liked her deviance nor her attitude, but above all, she was a fourteen-year-old, sold off to the council three years ago by her father while he stayed away for a fairy knows how long, not even writing a single letter for almost three years. The council was full of elder members of different species who all were stuck in their old beliefs,

