Lead image by Hatnim Lee
At first, perched patiently in my seat, I was thinking Gotham Hall would make a perfect palace for New York City’s most pristine princesses. But when my gaze came back to earth, where mistresses of culture like Thelma Golden and Sarah Sophie Flicker sat firmly grounded in their seats, it occurred to me Ms. Rowley might have something more than a just a bit of clever charm in store.
And indeed, she did. A thunderous banging began in the balcony, war whoops echoed through the hall, and out marched a parade of princesses who had been well beyond the castle walls. They had been let loose with the wild things, skinned the elbows of their canary yellow dresses and swam through saltwater that left their hair in soft matted messes, streaked through with florescent strands. They hunted for feathers to lash onto their organza trappings and dyed them with berries from the forest floor. Around their necks they wore toadstools that had grown under the full moon after a thunderstorm; and indigo cobwebs stretched across their backs, protecting them from anyone that might try to steal them back to the pristine palace—a place they had long forgotten.
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