The rooms given to Princess Jade.

"Come in Ariadne, sir right down at the vanity table."

Jade puttered about gathering things and ready for a full on beauty montage.
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Ariadne sat.  She was a but nervous about letting herself be in her cousin's hands, but she had to admit that she was more than a little intrigued

Some of the amethyst beads went into her hair to emphasize her personal color as well as to offset her lovely midnight dark hair. Light purple eyeshadow nothing to dark since Ariadne's skin was so light.

"Do all women on earth wear their hair so short and men wear their hair longer like Lance ?"

Ariadne chuckled
"No, I'm afraid not.    The long haired women and short haired men are definitely the majority,  with the rest of us being the exceptions.   Though the rules for fashion aren't as strict as they used to be. "

"I like my hair being long, though yours looks really good short and is probably easy to take care of. In Rebma long hair is often worn lose though that can be a real pain snagging on things." Jade chatters away good naturedly as she works on Ariadne.

Just as a hair stylist on earth might.

Ariadne nodded (though carefully,  as to not distract Jade)
"The private school i attended was very high quality,  but had extremely conservative religious values.   I had long hair growing up,  and wanted to get it cut, but the head nun told us that 'girls with short hair had the devil in them', so i didn't dare to get a hair cut until I was almost out of school "

"Sounds like people on your world liked to traumatize children. Sorry you and Lance had to grow up like that. I mean it happens here too just it really seems to happen on your world a lot."

When she is done Jade smiles brightly and turns up the oil lamps so Ariadne could see herself in the mirror better.

Ariadne sighed and smiled wryly
"A lot of it is due to religion in my world.   When people feel.like some supernatural being agrees with them, they're capable of truly horrendous things.   There is some good thwr people do in the name of religion,  but honestly most of them would have done good deeds by their own volition.  And bad people who want to control other people love to use religion to do it."
She looked at Jade.
"I guess this is one of the reasons why i don't take supernatural things too seriously.   Perhaps the Unicorn and the Narwhal are benevolent creatures,  but to me they just seem to be another way for people to justify thwir own actions with 'because god said so'."

She glanced at the mirror and blinked her long lashes in surprise.
"Wow....this is amazing,  Jade.  If you wanted to make it rich quickly,  you'd make a mint doing make up work on Earth.  I've been worked on by many professional make up artists,  and I've never seen a look like this"

"I have to be good, or else I get flogged. Remember I served the queen directly. I am really glad you like it. You have such a wonderfully unique look to you like your mother. Your going to stand out and shine." Jade seemed really happy that Ariadne was pleased.

"I guess some bad things were done in the name of the unicorn. Oberon used to have older sons and they died in earlier wars that happened when some which was blaspheming and desecrating churches of the unicorn. From what I have heard those were really bad wars. Way before my time though your mother, her brothers, uncle Benedict and my mother and Bleys were around. Though they were much younger then."

"Thank you again for your help. "
She admired her reflection
"Maybe that's something we can bring to this place, some rational thought.   If the king wants to declare war or raise taxes, he needs to have the courage to do so, not to hide behind the Unicorn. "

She turned to Jade
"Is there anything i can do to help you?  I'll admit that I don't have your skill, though "

"I just want to be friends with you, every time I think were becoming good friends it seems like something weird happens. I hope your dad is at the concert tonight too, I will get to talk to him and maybe learn about the earth better."

"Something weird happens?
I'm not sure what you mean."