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Cassy was going to have his head, she thought to herself. She had no idea why she was so mad, but she just was. It didn’t make it any better that he had not dropped in on her the entire day since the princess came around—and it was all she could hear from the maids. The princess wants this, oh she wants that as well. She decided that if she heard another person call the name ‘Adrienne’, she would throttle them.

Even now, she needed help getting into her dress for her dinner with Lino and the Elders, and there was not a single maid available to attend to her. It would seem someone had made a plan behind her back to make her life so many shades of miserable today, but she would not let it happen.

She could wear her dress herself, and get herself ready. She’d done it before without their help, she could do it now.

And so Cassy shoved herself inside her dress angrily, bending awkwardly to adjust the laces of the corset. The harder it was, the more she fumed. Goddess helped Lino, if sh