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Weekly Contest #254
As guests adorned in feathers and silks elegantly glided across the marble ballroom floor, sipped the goblets of aged crimson wine, gossiped into the ears of one another, and laughed while concealing their faces behind their delicate fans, I hid. Under one of the many stone arches of the king’s opulent ballroom filled with intricate oil paintings and glittering crystals, I wrapped my hands around myself. I was a sheep in wolves’ clothing. The dress I wore was not bought but stolen from the local seamstress, who likely had sewn together a qu...
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