True to her word, Ariel prepared herself for the festival. She combed her hair and put a ফুল in her hair for her ornament. She looked আরো beautiful than ever, and the other মৎসকুমারী envied her when she entered into the Mistress' royal hall. Citrine, Vermillion, and Noire, the three মৎসকুমারী who jeered at her when they bathed at Misty Falls, wanted to approach her and gave her আরো annoying digs, but Ariel wouldn't let them. She was quickly surrounded দ্বারা 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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