Chapter 1
“Come onnnn!” I yell.
“I’m coming! Just wait one minute,” my mom calls back. Tonight is the Night of Freeness, and Queen Sleeping Beauty and King Charming are hosting a ball. The Night of Freeness is when famous creatures and, well, not-famous creatures, hang out together. It’s my favorite night because I don’t need to work. You see famous creatures like Humpty Dumpty, Cinderella and The Beast, who are supposed to have a great luxurious life because yeah, they are famous. Unfamous creatures need to work for famous creatures to make the famous creatures’ lives better. I am an unfamous creature.
Back to the ball. Queen Snow White, of course, helps with that. Queen Snow White is the leader of all the balls and, in my opinion, the leader of the world. Oh, the glorious Queen Snow White, this. Oh the glorious Queen Snow White, that. So annoying! I wish I could be a famous creature. And hey, I was there when Humpty Dumpty fell! But of course, the boring Ella never got mentioned. Of course not. She’s nothing important. Hmph!
“Ok, I’m ready. Let’s go,” my mom says as she comes out of the dressing room. I twirl around the room. My long black hair swings around me. I have always thought my mom was way prettier than me, but I never tell her. She is wearing a long and poofy yellow dress with white swirls.
“Are we going to take a carriage, or walk?” I asked. I knew the answer.
“We wouldn’t want to ruin our pretty dresses,” She says. We walk down the stairs that lead to the outside. It’s spring. There is a light breeze, but it is also warm out. Butler Mother Toppkins opens the carriage door for us.
“Thank you,” Mother says. “Oh, Mother Toppkins! Are you going to the ball too? It is the Night of Freeness, and you don’t need to work for us until tomorrow,” she adds.
Mother Toppkins smiles. “I will go, thank you,” she says. Then she shuts the door.
“Now, you need to be very well mannered and kind. Queen Snow will be up in her room. She doesn’t like too much attention,” Mother says.
I nod my head. The carriage starts moving. Queen Snow has a room at every castle, even ours. It’s required. Oh my gosh! I just got the greatest idea in the history of great ideas! I don’t want to ruin the fun of the Night of Freeness, but I don’t think any of this is fair. I want to be free.
Usually on normal days mother and I go over to Jack from Jack and the Beanstalk’s house and Clean! ‘Cause he’s all famous and we need to respect him and all. I’m going to change this. I’m going to talk to Queen Snow.
Chapter 2
Mother gets out of the carriage and lifts up her dress. I get out of the carriage and trip. I fall on my knees. Ow. That’s ok. No harm done. I see Mother smothering a laugh.
“Please don’t insult me,” I say as I get up. Mother nods. Here’s my plan. Queen Snow will be up in her room, and I will be down at the ball. I can tell the guards that I need to go to the bathroom, and the other bathroom has been locked forever! I’m a kid, so they cannot expect too much from me. Then, I go up and talk to Queen Snow. I will talk to her about how I think I and some of the other creatures should be free. She probably will not listen. But I can bribe her. Queen Snow basically gets everything she wants. She wants our Castle of Light badly, and she would do anything to get it. Three years ago she offered her son’s life for it. There is some history through the Kingdom of Light and Queen Snow’s son. Queen Snow has one son, Sammy, and one daughter, June. Sammy is 15, and June is 12. Sammy, when he was about my age, 10, wanted to have a fairy cake for his birthday. If you blow out the candle of a fairy cake and make a wish, that wish comes true no matter what. The Light Kingdom is the only kingdom that sells fairy cakes besides the Sea Kingdom, where the cake gets soggy. Sammy didn’t have any money, but he came over to the Light Kingdom. The fairy didn’t know it was Sammy at the time, and told him he needed to pay double for his rudeness. Sammy got upset and grabbed a knife from the butcher’s stand, threatening to kill the poor fairy. He didn’t, but the Light Kingdom has feared Sammy ever since. We have also heard that Sammy has gotten even more dangerous. At that thought, I shivered.
“What are you waiting for? Let’s go inside,” Mother says
We start walking toward the castle. It is giant, with two long pillars on the side. It has a moat, but one so small you could just step over it. It’s gray, and has a drawbridge. At the very top of it, you can see Queen Snow’s room. Her room is always at the top left. In every castle. I have no idea why. Mother and I step onto the open drawbridge and go inside the castle.
Woah. Double woah. There is a big chandelier hanging on the high ceiling. There are rows and rows of snacks and in the very back of the room there are three thrones, one big and two smaller. Queen Sleeping Beauty, King Charming and the bigger one for Queen Snow. And, greatest of all, there are twisting stairs that lead all the way up to Queen Snow. Two guards are patrolling the stairs. I guess Queen Snow put them there.
“You can go find some other kids to play with, I want to greet Queen Sleeping Beauty and King Charming,” Mother says, and with that she pats my back and leaves. In other cases I would grumble and say something like Fine, leave me stranded, I’m sure I’ll find somebody else to raise me. Then, Mother would chuckle and walk away. But now I am high-energy, ready for anything.
I take a look around. Hmmm. I need to find a way to lock the bathroom door, but still be able to get out. I’ve got it! I run to the bathroom and say a lot of “ excuse mes” and “sorries”. I look at the bathroom. Ah, a window. I lock the door, then get a white stool with pink and green polka dots. It is not very pretty in my opinion. I prop the stool under the windowsill and open the window. Oh! This is a bad idea. I might ruin my dress! Then I think about all the times I’ve needed to clean those golden eggs and trim weeds. This will be worth it. I climb out the window. My silky blue dress snags on the window, and I stumble. I can’t rip it, or Mother will know something is up. I carefully lift my dress off the windowsill edge. Phew. I close the window and turn around the corner. Now I can see the entrance. I see a carriage with a lady getting out. She has beautiful blonde hair that is in a long braid. Rapunzel. I step over the moat and get on the drawbridge. Yay! I’ve made it. I walk through the entrance into the reception room and try not to look like I just climbed out of a bathroom window. Then I put on a very sad face. I wobble over to the stairs. A guard looks at me.
“Hello. Queen Snow’s personal service. How may I help you?” the guard says. I try not to laugh, keeping the sad look pasted on my face.
“I need to use the potty!” I say.
“ Oh! Uh…There is a bathroom to the left of the royal thrones,” The guard says. He looks kind of surprised. Maybe he expected me to be more mature.
“No! I need to go potty and the other bathroom is not opening! I want to go!” I say.
The guard looks at me up and down. Then he closes his eyes and sighs
. “Right. Go on up. If I hear any disturbance at all from Queen Snow you are going to jail. Do you understand?” he asks.
I try to look worried and nod. Then I rush upstairs. “Bathroom 23 is locked. Repeat, Bathroom 23 is locked,” I hear the guard say. Yay! I made it. Now for the hard part.
Chapter 3
I crawl up the stairs. Oh my gosh! How does Queen Snow get all the way up here? While I’m walking up the stairs I should probably plan what to say. Should it be babyish, like with the guard, or more mature? I think it should be more mature. Here goes nothing. I get up to the highest floor. There are 3 rooms. Queen Snow is known for being kind and generous, so this should be pretty easy. Hopefully. Which room should I check first? The first door is closed fully, and there’s a strangely awesome smell coming from that room. The second is closed, and it smells really bad. The third is closed too, and no sound or smell comes from it. I know the one on the left with the good smell is Queen Snow’s room, but she could be in any of the others. I want to get it over with, so I will check the smelly one first.
“That’s enough!” I hear. I can’t tell what room it comes from. I open the door to the first and smelly one. Pee U! It’s a bathroom. Ewwwwwwww! Let me check the next one. Which one should I pick? How about her room?
“NO! I want it!” I hear. It’s coming from room one: her bedroom, the one with the nice smell. I quickly take a peek into the third room. The walls are red and the room is really messy. Dirty socks and wet paint brushes are on the bed. I quickly shut the door. I need to talk to Queen Snow. I open the door and hope for the very best.
“It has BAD grammar, and my kids need to be good rulers!” Queen Snow shouts. The room is very small, smaller than the messy room. The walls are a hot pink. There is a made bed with a book on it. Queen Snow is sitting in a fluffy looking chair, and I desperately want to push her off it so I can take a seat. She is sitting in front of a dresser and mirror. A tall, skinny kid is pulling a book from Queen Snow’s hand. A second ago, she said “My kids need to be good rulers”. Who would dare pull anything out of Queen Snow’s hand? Suddenly everything fit together. I stumble back and grip onto the railing. I’m standing in front of the most dangerous person in the kingdom. And that person is, unfortunately, Sammy White.
Queen Snow looks at me like she doesn’t know what to make of this. “What is THIS?” she exclaims. Sammy looks at me. I have two options. I can run down the stairs at full speed, or stay. I need to do this.
“Um…My na-” I start to say.
“Oh! I recognize her. She is some princess of light, or something,” Sammy interrupts. His eyes scream ‘Come at me, I dare you’. I take a deep breath.
“Yes, thank you Sammy,” I say and try to look calm.
“Ah. Ok. Um… Your name is?” Queen Snow says.
“E-Ella, your majesty,” I say, curtsying.
“That is more like it. Why did you come up here, Ella princess of light? Because I don’t have much time. You seem to stutter way too much for this to be proper, but please go on,” Queen Snow says. I’m taken aback by her rudeness.
“I’m sorry…your majesty” I say. She sighs. “I wanted to come to talk to you about famous and unfamous creatures,” I say.
“My mother doesn’t talk about that,” Sammy says. I try to ignore him. I need to face my fears.
“No darling, let her talk,” Queen Snow says.
“Thanks. I want you to change this. I am treated unfairly, and I don’t like that. I am a maid for Jack’s house,” I say.
“Honey, please. I don’t change stuff like that.” Queen Snow responds. She examines her nails while I talk.
“Stop worrying about how pretty you are, and listen to me!” I demand.
Queen Snow looks up, surprised. “Do not talk back to me!” she yells, getting up from her chair.
“We are all the same! We are all equal!” I yell.
“Leave!” She yells.
“I will talk to my mom and see if you can get our castle in exchange for you letting every single unfamous creature go,” I say. I try to stay calm. I’ve suddenly realized that I’m not only scared of Sammy, I’m afraid of Queen Snow. Queen Snow sits back down.
“Sammy darling, please go into your room. I need to talk to Ella, alone,” Queen Snow says, in a dangerously calm voice. Sammy nods. He leaves the room and pushes me out of his way. He goes into the dirty third room.
“You are embarrassing!” Queen Snow immediately says.
“Excuse me?” I ask.
“You are embarrassing!” She shouts, even though I didn’t mean excuse me like please repeat that, I meant it like how rude can you get! “You think I would give away my power and fame for some lame castle that I wanted three years ago? You think?” Queen Snow cries. I feel my face turning red. “Go back from where you came from and stop disturbing me!” Queen Snow yells.
Am I actually going to let some snobby Queen treat me this way? No, I will not!
“You- You are the worst queen ever! And for your information, I will go back to where I came from!” I shout. I storm down the stairs.
“You know there is an elevator!” Queen Snow yells, slamming her door.
UGH!
Chapter 4
“Can we go home now?” I ask my mother. The chandelier and thrones don’t look pretty anymore.
“Are you feeling Ok?” Mother asks me.
“Fine, I’m feeling fine,” I grumble.
“Okay, we can leave soon,” Mother says, then she turns her back on me.
Why was Queen Snow so rude? What was her problem? “Mother, aren’t you tired of being treated badly by the famous cr-” I start to say.
“Honey, we don’t talk about that here.” Mother interrupts.
“Then let’s go home so we can talk about it,” I say. My mother looks at me for a long time.
“Fine then” Mother says. She takes me by the arm and we start walking out of the castle.
“Have you ever met Queen Snow?” I ask her in the carriage.
“Ah, yes. Once when I was very tiny. She came over and wanted to take a look at me. She wants to every time there is a new baby. I don’t remember much. I do remember my mother talking to her and bowing. But no more, Why?” Mother says. I decide not to answer the question. Mother is looking out of the window.
“Mother, I want to start a protest against Queen Snow,” I say.
Mother looks up from the window. “Really? And why is that?” she asks.
I sigh. “Aren’t you ever going to realize that cleaning Jack’s house is not the most productive thing to do?” I ask her. She chuckles. When will she notice? Why hasn’t anybody done anything?
“No, it is not such a productive thing, is it.”Mother says. I can’t believe she is agreeing.
“I want to do a protest, a parade!” I yell as the carriage stops. Mother looks at me and I expect her to say something like No, darling, that is a bad idea. But she smiles.
“Okay” She says.
That was… easy. I get out of the carriage and finally lift my dress up correctly!
“Mother, I saw Sammy today.” I say. I don’t know why I do it or if I shouldn’t have. Mother stops dead in her tracks.
“A-And where was this?” she asks, cautiously and slowly.
“I went up to Snow White’s room today. I saw Sammy there. I went up to talk to her about the fairness of creatures.” I say, trying to seem pretty chill about it.
“Go up to your room NOW!” Mother yells.
“What about the parade?” I ask. I immediately knew I shouldn’t have.
“Later! I need to think now! I have done so much for you and you respond like THIS!” my mother yells. My eyes tear up. I dash into the castle and run up the stairs. I don’t bother taking my heels off. I have done a lot in return too. I am a good daughter!
Chapter 5
Rap rap rap.
“Oh come on. I am sorry. Please let me in ” I hear Mother’s voice say.
“Fine,” I grumble, and I open the door. I know that Mother is sorry, but the parade meant a lot to me. She just shut that idea out.
“I am really sorry. Let’s do the parade. We only have a day to convince people anyways, because today is the Day of Freeness. If we wait till tomorrow, Queen Snow will put us in jail. So get out here so we can spread the word about this parade,” Mother says. I nod. She is right. We only have today.
“So, I was thinking, we work for them, right? What if part of the protest was not working for them. Because they need us,” Mother says. I nod again. “Come on, let’s go,” she says.
“ Should we make posters?” I ask.
This time, mother nods. “You go around telling people, and I will put up posters, Ok?” Mother asks.
“Sure” I agree.
The door knob is cold to my fingers. I walk down the two flights of stairs. I think I forgive Mother. I ran across the wet grass. Our neighbor is also an unfamous creature. His name is Ferm chicken. He is a chicken. He is one of the happiest, talkiest chickens I ever have known. I knock on his door, and I spot Mother coming out of our castle holding some flyers. His house is unstable and made of hay. I would not be surprised if the whole house collapsed over my hand. The door opens.
“What? Oh my! Princess of light!” says Ferm chicken, bowing three times.
“Yeah” I say. “I wanted to tell you that the unfamous creatures are going to stop working for the famous creatures in protest.”
“Oh my gosh, that is great! Do you want to come inside? It is such an awesome day out, isn’t it?” Ferm chicken asks.
“Oh, no thank you! But how is Mrs. Frem chicken?” I ask.
“Ok, thank you for asking.” Ferm chicken replies. He stares at me for a couple of seconds.
“Do you know any good places to find unfamous creatures?” I ask.
“Yeah, try house 54.” Ferm chicken says.
“Thanks.” I say. He shuts the door with a big slam. The hay house trembles. House 54. House 54. Ah. Here. On the door it has a sign that says:
BEWARE OF THE PIG.
THAT’S MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
I gulp. But if Ferm chicken trusts this dude, I bet I should, too. I slowly knock on the door.
“Hullo. My name Loin the lion,” says the lion who answers the door.
“Hello, Loin the lion-” I say, before getting cut off.
“NOOOOOO! My name Loin! Not Loin the lion!” He interrupts.
“Sorry, Loin.” I say.
“Sure.” Loin says.
“So, me and some other folks are going to stop working for famous creatures in protest. Will you?” I ask him.
“Sure,” he says. I can’t tell if that is a yes, but that’s ok.
“Loin, do you know any other places where there are other unfamous creatures’ houses?” I ask.
“23 house DOGGY.” Loin says. Then he breaks out in giggles, whispering “doggy hee hummy hee doggy dum dog dutch hee hum le lum doggy hee hummy hee doggy dum dog dutch he hum le lum doggy hee hummy!”
Suddenly, he shuts the door in my face. Ok…
“Bye!” I call.
“Bye bye doggy!” Loin cries.
This goes on for three to four hours, and I get every single unfamous creature in the whole Kingdom of Light to join the parade. Mother does a good job with the posters. I see a few. They say:
Have you ever felt like you had more
potential than cleaning a house?
Stop working and cleaning for
Them then! They need us and will have
to learn how to do it on their own!
Lots of people agree! Don’t be embarrassed!
And stuff like:
We are stopping working! We can do more
than just cleaning! Lots of creatures are
doing it! Don’t be embarrassed! We are all
equal, and some people can’t see that! They
need us now! But they need to learn how to
do this on their own!
As I walk home I think about how Queen Snow would’ve reacted to this. She would probably have said something like “Darling! This is such a horrid idea! Don’t do this to your friends!” Ha ha. I hope I never have to see her or Sammy again! I probably will, though. My feet hit the ground. It’s hot out. This morning it was pretty cool, but now the cobblestones are melting. Boy. In the distance, I see our castle. It’s funny; there are high people, low people and really low people. I still live in a castle, but I am a maid. Queen Snow is at the very top. The people in my kingdom are at the bottom. Everybody would be famous! Or rather, everybody would be unfamous. I look up and see the castle. I’ve been walking for a long time and my legs are sore.
When I get home I see Mother on the couch, reading a book. I sit on the couch next to her and grab a random book. I could read anything now. The ways of her majesty Queen Snow White. Nevermind. Not anything. I put that book down and pick up another book. I start reading, and the words swirl in my brain. Hopefully this will end ok.
Chapter 6
I turn in my bed. I can’t be late or I will be scolded by Jack.
“Ughhh” I say. Suddenly, I remember about the not working thing. I can go back to sleep! Yay! I cuddle my covers. Just as I’m falling back asleep I hear a knock on the door. “NOOOOO!” I half mumble, half shout. Mother comes in and sits on the end of my bed. I turn my back to her by flopping around.
Mother chuckles. “Darling, you need to get up. Queen Snow is at the door,” she says, calmly.
I bolt straight up.
“Woah! Deep breaths. Deep breaths. She wants to talk to you about the absence of some maids,” Mother says.
“What should I say?” I ask. What if she puts Mother and me in jail?
“Be honest. She may have witnesses, but she can not physically prove anything,” Mother says.
I push my sheets back. I know I am in my PJ’s, and I know I didn’t brush my hair. But at this point I don’t care what she or Sammy thinks of me.
I go downstairs and Mother follows me. My hand brushes against the railing, for maybe the last time. I open the door, the cool door knob against my hand.
As Mother said, Queen Snow stands by the door. Two guards are standing next to her with absolutely no expression.
“Hi Queen Snow,” I say, my hand on the side of the door.
“What on earth are you wearing? This is infuriating! You have no respect for your elders!” Queen Snow shouts.
I glance behind me and I see Mother smiling at me. “Sorry” I say. I’m pretty sure we both know that I’m not really sorry.
“Whatever, Ella. I came to complain about the absence of my maids and workers!” Queen Snow yells.
“Don’t call them that!” I shout. Then I take a breath. “Do you have a guess why they didn’t show up?” I ask.
Queen Snow rolls her eyes. “Oh, Sure!” she says. One of her guards holds up one of the posters that Mother printed. “Because they don’t deserve to be treated like this or whatever,” she grumbles. I smile as I see her blush a bit.
“Yeah, exactly. So we will not even acknowledge your presence until you change the rules,” I say. I put on one of my ‘I told you I would win’ smiles that I have been practicing in my mirror.
I can’t tell what Queen Snow’s look is. Somewhat disgusted.
“Well..” Queen Snow starts to say, but her voice trails off.
“So, Goodbye Queen Snow,” I say, and slowly shut the door.
“Wait! No! Guards, Do something! A– what? No! No!” I hear Queen Snow shout.
I look at Mother straight into her eyes.
“Wanna make some celebration cupcakes?” Mother asks. I nod. I am proud, happy and scared. Queen Snow still has a lot of power. She can use her power. But for now it will be ok.
Chapter 7
THE FAIRYTALE NEWSPAPER.
Queen Snow has lost power to a 10 year old girl named Ella. Everybody is shocked and Queen Snow is infuriated! Ella was saying to Queen Snow that the not-famous creatures should not work until Queen Snow changes the rules. People have had parades and stopped working. This is crazy! Queen Snow hasn’t shown herself in public for 3 weeks, and nobody knows what decision she will make. On Saturday there was attempted murder. A whole gang of people tried to break into Queen Snow’s house and murder her! They are in jail now. Nobody knows where that came from, or if Ella started it. The construction workers are very busy: people have hired them to smash Queen Snow’s rooms in their castles. Some people have tried to smash them themselves, and their castles look absolutely ruined. They don’t care. People are worried, though. What if Queen Snow decides not to get rid of the rule? Would everyone who tried to stop her go to jail? If she does get rid of the castle, would people lose their homes to give the money to less rich people? What about all the money they earned? If Queen Snow is not in charge of making the rules, who will be? Is this a bad thing? Some people say that Ella should be the leader, but this is a big problem. Now we will leave you with that question. Thank you for reading THE FAIRYTALE NEWSPAPER, and goodbye.
Chapter 8
I am everywhere! In the newspaper, and radio! It’s crazy and in some way I love it! But I also really am annoyed, because sometimes the newspaper talks total trash about me! Mother is very proud, though. Some people also think I should take Queen Snow’s place. Honestly I would be ok with that. But I don’t want this whole thing to start over again. And that would be even worse, because I would be the new Queen Snow! Except Queen Ella. Right now I am sitting in the living room, reading the newspaper and eating cookies. I flip the page and Mother walks into the room.
“Queen Snow has decided to have a ball at her palace, and at the end she will make her decision,” Mother says.
I have been waiting for this news for 3 whole weeks! I am kind of done with this. “That’s awesome!” I say, though. It is pretty good. But why a ball? What is she planning? “When is it happening?” I ask.
“Now. Well, Tonight,” Mother says.
I almost choke on a cookie. “So soon?!” I yell. Mother nods. I have so many thoughts I don’t know what to think. “Do I need to go?” I ask, and I know it is a horrible question.
“Um.. Yes! Duh, Ella! She is announcing the most important thing in your life!” Mother cries.
“Ok,” I say. Why am I not excited?
Mother frowns and sits down next to me. “Are you ok, Ella?” she asks. I burst into tears. “Why are you crying?” Mother asks. I don’t know. Why am I crying?
“I don’t want to become queen.” I say.
She stares at me for a minute. “Ok. That’s Fine.” Mother says.
“Who will be in charge, then?” I shout.
“ I will.” Mother says.
I start laughing. And laughing. And laughing. My stomach hurts. “You can’t be Queen!” I say.
“Why can’t I be Queen?” Mother asks.
I think for a moment. “You’re too old?” I say. But it comes out more like a question.
“Queen Snow is older than me!” Mother says.
I think about that. I believe her, but Queen Snow looks great for her age.
“Let’s go to the store to buy some dresses.” Mother says.
Chapter 9
My mother and I are walking to the ball. We don’t care if we get our dresses dirty, and nobody would stop a carriage for us.
I break the silence. “What do you think she will pick?” I ask.
“Well, it’s no use being famous if nobody likes you and you have no maids,” Mother says.
I nodded, but she hasn’t answered my question. I am worried now. Really, really worried. We see a crowd of people coming to the castle. Monsters, Orges, humans. I think I see a sheep! I get inside and inhale. I try not to seem amazed, but this is even better than Queen Sleeping Beauty’s place. A bunch of candles are hanging from a rich purple ceiling. There are a bunch of soft and cushiony chairs on the ground. The ball room is tremendous! Gigantic!
Queen Snow stands on the stage. Seeing her gives me the chills. Everybody sits down. Queen Snow puts on a totally fake smile.
“Hi everybody!” Queen Snow shouts.
Nobody says anything, but I hear some disappointed muttering.
“Great. Yup. I get it. I have made a decision. This is one of my biggest decisions. And honestly, I am not so satisfied with my choice. But… Please bow down to Queen Ella.”
My heart beats fast. Mother nudges me.
“Go up there. Show them you are brave.” Mother whispers in my ear.
I get up and walk down the aisle. Creatures howl and cheer. Queen Snow smiles. I step up the stairs. Queen Snow goes down the stairs, and when she passes me she whispers:“See what it is like, Ella.”
I ignore her. I squeeze my long pink dress.
“Thank you, everybody.” I say. I don’t know what to say. Do I want to give this big opportunity to my mom? There is a big pause. “Ahem. Sorry. I actually have some disappointing news.” I said. People whispered some more. “I don’t actually want to be queen very much. So I want to give this place to my mom.” I say. I see tears glistening in her eyes and she gets up. She walks down the aisle and gets on the stage. I hug her, and then awkwardly get off the stage.
“Thank you, Ella. I look forward to seeing the awesome progress we will have together. You do not need to give away anything, and I will not make you or force you to do anything.”
I look over at Que- I mean just Snow. She is scowling. This is okay. Everything went okay.