The Queen of Nobody (Rewriting)

CHAPTER TWENTY EIGHT

After the interview our numbers reduced from approximately seventy to fifty.

Almost twenty people had been eliminated.

We were assigned to rest for the celebration to continue the next day.

We were all driven home in the limousines that were far more fewer than when we arrived.

I was happy that at least I have reached this point.

We were back in the AR (Accommodating Room).

And we were addressed on behaving well and doing our best to win. We celebrated a little then retired to our rooms, food was brought to us and I ate, the roasted fish reminding me of my home, but the only difference is that the fish was already dead, while we usually eat ours alive. 

I planned and planned until it was very late and then I slept.

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The next day was here and I was again in the front of the mirror as I was dressed by the maids assigned to take care of me, I was applied a very light makeup, and I was in a blue down shoulder fitted dress that had a side split and was designed to flay at the end of the dress and sweep through the floor.

We were taken to that same occasion spot which was called the ceremony house or the ceremony avenue and immediately we all arrived, the celebration continued.

The same jelled haired man was on the stage and he began "today we will be doing something special, the fifty girls will showcase their talents and from this and all other eliminating factors the prince will be able to pick twenty girls that will be left for the main choosing, each girl has the time limit of seven minutes to show case their talents.

We should all have in mind that all these procedures are not the main reason we are eliminating the girls, we just want to know what you have and what you can do, so that the prince can use this factors as a plus or minus to his already made decisions.

I want you to know that each and every one of you is beautiful and special in your way he finished". And there was a sound of a cheering among guests and the nervous girls around the hall.

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We were led to another different dressing room from that of the previous day.

This one was so large; it was like half the space of the hall that the ceremony took place on. It could accommodate about 500 people comfortably.

We were given one hour to prepare.

Some girls were singing the songs they would present and practising them, some were practicing dance steps while some brought animals into the dressing room and were doing some kind of prep talk with the animals which was really weird, some were with knives and arrows and they did some tricks with their tools, which I found amazing. All these for nothing.

There was just too much activities going on, but I just sat down. Some people notice my inactivity but they just ignored it due to time as they would even be glad if I lost.

We were given numbers after 45 minutes of practice, and I was number 50, that was the last number.

Maybe the reason why I was given the number 50 was because I was the last girl to be considered, I guess my story of being an orphan with memory loss was not the kind of story they were looking for as the past  life of their queen.