Audio File 3: Bianca

“Bianca here. It had been three hours and the Empress was finally ready to see me. She asked her guard to come fetch me. Hope the meeting won’t be too long.”

*three hours later*

“Bianca here. I–I finally the people the Empress will marry. One of them is *silence before sobbing*”

*An hour later*

“ *soft sniffing* Estella is one of the brides-to-be…”

*Much later*

“I waited so long to be reunited with Estella, yet I can’t even properly talk to her without the fear of us being turned into puppets by the Empress. What should I do?”