During these four years, she had managed to develop a somewhat foggy
understanding of 'delicate subjects' having to do with politically
potent and sensitive issues which one must always try to heed in order
to properly show 'manners'. In view of how little she knew, it appeared
that she did not merely have her marks to learn, she also had to pick
up on the royal ropes. Many doors, some good, some evil, would
henceforth stand open to her, but she must choose which.
Seemingly from her first month at the palace, Si'Wren had begun to
assume the mantle of womanhood. Now, at sixteen, she was beginning to
take on some of the physical characteristics of an adult, although in
stature she still appeared to be somewhat small compared to others born
of the same year. She was developing a trim, athletic figure as a
result of avoiding the many fattening and corrupting foods free for the
taking as a palace resident, and was becoming more womanly of form now
with each passing year.
She who had once bathed in the stream, now dipped herself in the
magnificent public baths of the palace dignitaries. Indeed, her
privileges were such that she could have indulged in many spoiling
luxuries, although -except for a simple desire for natural purity and
cleanliness- by and large she tended to shun the physically and morally
polluting diversions.
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