Exotic and Burnt

I spun around as best I could. The three ladies maids gazed up at me with their emotionless masks.

"Take this off of me," I demanded.

They were silent as stone. Frustrated I began to tear at the corset, there were too many knots and I had only undone one when I was stopped.

"The King requested this dress," Cat-face said in her more soothing singing voice. I felt her catch my hand and guide it back to my side. Then she fixed the knot in a flash.

I felt so stiff I knew I could not sit down to take off the shoes.

I just crossed my arms and narrowed my eyes, "You made me into a captive Princess." I stated this as a fact.

"This design is supposed to echo the home you came from," Cat-face began to explain.