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“I volunteer as tribute!” the girl roared, pushing aside other girls in the wake of her ferocity. I watch her run to the hàng đầu, đầu trang of the stage, fierce and not wanting to let anyone else claim the glorious position.

“Merida! No!,” cry two people in the crowd, her parents most likely. Boy, it must be nice to have parents that haven’t abandoned you.

Not that I blame my parents hoặc anything. For leaving me to grow up with a portly old nanny in a drafty mansion after the accident that turned me into... what?

A monster. An aberration. A mutt. That’s what. Radiation...

Anya, meanwhile, had finally finished getting ready. She was nervous about meeting the Empress again. The last time she had met her, well, she had been a child, not knowing any better but now she was an adult, she would be judged as one.

She thought back to that last meeting. The Empress had seemed so nice and then she had been about to talk to Belle too but then her father had swept her away and Belle had never spoken to her since. Poor Belle. “I know what she must think of me,” Anya sighed, “but I never asked for this.”

Straightening her midnight blue dress and checking that her hair...