[when she'd first woken up here and had everything explained, she's raged, tearing the paper gown off, tearing it to pieces, and throwing them at the staff. then they tried to wrestle her into a cloth gown and she'd twisted and contorted like an angry cat, hurling insults and epithets at the personnel. then there was a pinch and she fell asleep again.

from peasant girl, to being fostered by a powerful queen and witch, then there were the dwarves. but no one mentions the dwarves in her hearing]

I must admit, I'm a little leery of the contracts. It seems as though all of the power is on the dominant's side and we have to compete like show ponies to catch someone's eye.