by Ellie

   The first daughter of Queen Melinda was a beautiful yet conceited girl named Rhiannon. Rhiannon was the first born, so she had everything she had ever wanted, more than enough food, and hundreds of expensive dresses and gowns and fabrics, but she was never pleased with herself, or pleased with anything for that matter.

     In her extensive marble-floored boudoir, she had a mirror that was framed with a simple silver design.  Every day she stared at herself, and she thought of all the things she didn’t have. Every day she stepped closer and closer and stared longer and longer. Finally, she stood so close to the mirror, inspecting her flawless face, that her cold breath fogged up the glass. She had looked so hard, she could no longer see herself.

      After she died, the script was read hundreds of years later by her namesake, Princess Rhiannon ll. Eam interior pulchritudo est, quod in æternum decidet, non haesitabit: It is the inner beauty that shall never fade nor falter.