Prologue: Ostentatious Misfortune

If there's a perfect world, with people who understand and sympathize with each other, Dew Coletyn wants to live in it. In her own, she can only go so far pretending that everyone has the right motives, or reasons, or incentives.

She's not even sure if she's doing a good job of it, but she can certainly try.

However, slipping yet another one of her little potions into the milkshake so that she doesn't die of boredom may have been the best decision she ever made, and she hadn't meant to be particularly noble or helpful to society in that specific instance.