Hi there! My name is Angela, and I was born in a small house in the Kingdom of Edopia. My dad worked at the local mill and my mom stayed home, growing flowers that she would later go and sell. I also had a little sister named Phillipa, who was totally adorable. Things had always been rough for us and we barely scraped by, but we were always there for each other. I didn’t mind it when I was a child, but as I grew older, I began to notice stuff. 

Like one day, my mom made us dolls made out of cloth. My sister was thrilled, while I was there, pouting. 

“Angela, what’s wrong honey? You don’t like it?” 

“Daisy has better ones. They are such tiny china dolls mum! And so pretty. Her parents are the best,” 

“Honey, Daisy’s dad works as a horseman for the king. We could never afford those. But the best thing about these, are that they’ll never break.”

Eventually, my parents coaxed me out of it and I also understood that it couldn’t be helped. 

When I was sixteen, one day, I was walking home near the town square when I saw that there was a crowd of people trying to watch something. I was tall, but there were so many people that it was difficult to see. I tried to jump to see over their heads. No luck. I found a barrel of wine near a cart and I climbed over it, finally managing to see a fancy carriage, unlike anything that I had ever seen before. It was something out of those fairytale books like that carriage made out of a magical pumpkin in Cinderella. 

There was a girl, around my age, looking around and waving at the crowd.

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