The Beta's Daughter
It smelt like strawberries as I twisted the cap open, and I applied it carefully to my pouted lips.
We were in mine and Samyak’s little cabin, clustered around the mirror Rosa had dragged in to my bedroom. She, as always, was waiting until the last possible moment to get dressed. Nami, however, was wearing an elegant bronze dress that clung to her torso and flowed loosely from her waist. Together Rosa and I, to Nami’s great delight, had braided a long French plait into her dark curls.
The sun hung low in the sky, warming the dewy grass and the burgundy trees. The ceremony would commence at sun down, when the light was low and the mood was filled with the excitement of twilight, of change.
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