I knew I should be hungry; I was the only one who hadn’t eaten before we went into the Hall to be introduced. Maybe in a minute I would try to eat something, but now I just wanted to warm myself by the fire. The part of me that needed the warmth, wished that I would hurry to get a little older, for I knew the older I got the less I would feel heat or cold. The aging process also takes away the need to sleep, except when necessary for healing, and we no longer need to eat regular meals to sustain us. Filling my head with these thoughts was keeping me from breaking into tears. We would find a way to see each other, I promised myself. I sighed and went into my room where I loosened the corseting at my waist, and shrugged the dress off my shoulders. Its sheer weight dragged it off my body and it fell to the floor. I stepped out of the rumpled gown now filling the space in front of the bed and removed the equally constrictive undergarment. I slipped on the simple nightgown laid out for me and crawled in between the two layers of down.
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