The girl in the red-violet dress twirls and twirls and twirls.
Sennia hair catching in knots on her brooches, grey slippers with cranberry inlay, worn to threads.
She can't stop twirling.
"These thing happen." Says the Rotten Old Queen. Her graying and stringy face stares into the vanity mirror as she impassively, obsessively brushes her hair.
The girl can't stop twirling and it seems she refuses to fall down. She keeps on going, long after she has passed out. She keeps on going, long after she has died.
The Rotten Old Queen laughs at the Silly Girl's mischief.
"It's so very true, Chancellor Danin, these things tend to happen."
The Silly Girl is twirling in her head, she is dead in her head, she has turned to nothing in her head.
The Silly Girl is twirling and whirling and just going about her day, on schedule.
Oh, she is twirling and whirling and she keeps on going, but she is no longer there!
The Rotten Old Queen sighs. Her successor seems to be lacking.
"She must stay on schedule. That is most important. Tell her to forget the Ball."
The Silly Girl just keeps on twirling.
The Future Queen must not forget, what she wants is never important.
"These things do tend to happen." The Rotten Old Queen laments. "Chancellor Danin, remind The Foal of her tea time at two o'clock and to tell her to forget the Ball!"
Ah... please read it. <3