A Princess And A Snowman
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In the dim glow of a flickering lantern, a mouse with patchwork fur and keen amber eyes darts across the cluttered workshop floor, its claws clicking against scattered brass cogs. It pauses, nose quivering, before leaping onto a workbench strewn with half-built automatons, snatching a shimmering crystal fragment between its teeth—a stolen power source that could either reignite the city’s dying machinery or unravel the tyrant inventor’s grip on the smog-choked metropolis.
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A princess giggles as she adjusts a velvet-trimmed cloak over her snowman companion’s frosty shoulders, their breath forming misty clouds in the crisp air. She layers her own silk-lined gown with a fur-lined cape dyed winterberry red, securing it with an ice-crystal brooch, while wrapping his midsection in a hand-knit scarf stitched with shimmering snowflakes. Delicate mittens embroidered with silver threads cover her hands as she crowns him with a top hat dotted with frosted pearls, then balances a diamond-tipped tiara atop her own windswept curls. She ties matching satin ribbons around his twiggy arms and her waist, draping them both in pendants carved from glacial blue gemstones—final touches for their royal stroll through the glittering, snow-laden gardens.
