The Feast

The banquet is a grand affair, fitting for a royal wedding. Chandelliers fill the hall with golden light, silverware gleams on tables ladden with food from all across the kingdom. Wine flows among the guests in finest silks.
Ariel sits at the newlyweds' table, but the guests don't bother talking to her, the prince's strange mute. She doesn't care anymore. All she sees is the platters of seafood, pincers and shells cracking as creature after creature from her kingdom is devoured… A single tear slides down Ariel's cheek as she wonders if Sebastian is over there, on a silver plate.