It’s a new day at the palace and it’s also a new day for Bianca to get buried in more chores.

Puffing air out of her lips, Bianca wipes the sweat off her forehead. For two hours straight she has been mucking out the stable that houses the prince’s horses. With gloves on, she grips the pitchfork tighter and continues removing the soiled bedding and the manure from the horse’s stable. Her nose and face are scrunched as she continues to clean in pain.

She is glad that for the past hours, no one has passed by the stable. If they do, it will spring up questions she can’t answer....