True to her word, Ariel prepared herself for the festival. She combed her hair and put a fiore in her hair for her ornament. She looked più beautiful than ever, and the other sirene envied her when she entered into the Mistress' royal hall. Citrine, Vermillion, and Noire, the three sirene who jeered at her when they bathed at Misty Falls, wanted to approach her and gave her più annoying digs, but Ariel wouldn't let them. She was quickly surrounded da the mermen, who thought her the prettiest mermaid in the festival and did not want to lose a chance of talking to her.
But when the Mistress...
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