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Echo: In the old world she was told, often and loudly, that she would never wear a crown.
Now: She chose to make her own out of paper, watercolor, and gold dots, and she wears it everywhere.
Juicy tidbit: Hers is the only crown in Ardithian the Pinks have ever asked to borrow. Triptinky says it's because it was made, not given.
The Duchess wears two faces under one magnificent crown, and she likes it that way. Her watercolor face is the girl who was told no. The shadowed face beside it holds every reason they gave. Below them both, a striped collar marks the day she stopped listening. The seam caught her as she cut her first paper crown from a scrap she found on the floor, and she has worn it ever since. In Ardithian she isn't royalty. She's something better: proof that you can crown yourself.
Echo: In the old world she was told, often and loudly, that she would never wear a crown.
Now: She chose to make her own out of paper, watercolor, and gold dots, and she wears it everywhere.
Juicy tidbit: Hers is the only crown in Ardithian the Pinks have ever asked to borrow. Triptinky says it's because it was made, not given.
The Duchess wears two faces under one magnificent crown, and she likes it that way. Her watercolor face is the girl who was told no. The shadowed face beside it holds every reason they gave. Below them both, a striped collar marks the day she stopped listening. The seam caught her as she cut her first paper crown from a scrap she found on the floor, and she has worn it ever since. In Ardithian she isn't royalty. She's something better: proof that you can crown yourself.