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Emotion 365: The Land of Beautifully Confident, the Capitol Sated

The woodland forest of classically beautiful Beautifully Confident sometimes seems dangerous. It harbors large large-toothed animals: bear, foxes, and wolves. Deer, raccoons, and black, brown, red, grey, and golden squirrels run here. Ravens call out to lost travelers. They find ingredients for spells and drop them outside witches' windows. They perch on the shoulders of wanderers.

A golden path leads to the Castle Sated with dusk colored walls and spires that pierce the sky. The rivers sing. Fairy queens wear magic coats and cast enchantments. Travelers inhale honeysuckle and jasmine scents. Hallucinogenic pollen grants magic powers of speech, spell-casting, and shape-shifting. 

“Never fear. We are the witches," says the Guide. "Sometimes, we eat from the shack made of candy and turn into wild pigs, but nothing comes of it but some happy rooting and truffle eating. We fall asleep sated and wake up as ourselves."

In Sated princesses bake cookies and the scent of cinnamon and vanilla wafts from castle turrets down to the riverbank where fairies raise their heads, laugh, and flit their wings to fly as fast as they can to the castle windows.

The princesses and deer princes feed them crumbs.

"The sweets are soft and smooth and taste of nut butter and honeysuckle juice," says Miss Emeline Traveler.

Sated's giant ovens keep the castle warm on rainy days and in winter. The princesses prepare cakes for feasts, ceremonies, and celebrations. Berries grow wild and abundant throughout Beautifully Confident and are hand-picked for pies (but sometimes magicked into barrels when the need arises for a quick batch). Then, juices flow.

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