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She was the fairest queen Luna had ever known

Grabbing for the sheer drape, she pulled the veil back over her head, encapsulating herself Her heart was staainst her ears

With an enraged scream, she reached for the silver hairbrush on the vanity and hurled it as hard as she could at the lass, spindling toward the silver fraers looked back at her She screa in reach--a vase, a perfu thelass splintered and shattered, broken slivers crashing to the floor Finally she picked up the small chair beside the vanity, cushioned in white velvet

With that final crash, thehalfway across the bedrooh the door "Your Majesty! Is everything all right?"

Panting, Levana threw the chair aside and crulass that cut into her shin Tre sure she was fully hidden

"Your Majesty?"

"Don’t couards paused

"I want--" Nearly choking on the words, she scrubbed the tears frole to coain "I want all the mirrors in the palace destroyed Every one of them Check the servants’ quarters, the washrooms, everywhere Check the entire city! Destroy them and throw their shattered pieces into the lake where I will never have to look at theuards murmured, "My Queen"

She could not tell if his words were to say that it would be done, or that she was talking like a madwoman

She didn’t care

"Once all of the lass for the palace, to replace all of the s, and every glass surface Glass that holds no reflection None at all"

"Is that possible, My Queen?"

Exhaling slowly, Levana grabbed for the edge of the vanity and pulled herself to her feet as gracefully as she could She adjusted the veil again before turning to face the guards "If it is not, then ill all live in a palace without any glass at all"