This is the central question. The answer depends entirely on how you define "better."

"What did the court take?" the throne asked again.

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Mara's chest hollowed. She thought of birthdays past, of the small victories and secret humiliations. She thought of the exact taste of peppermint tea when she and her brother would steal cups at dawn, the way he once taught her to fold paper cranes until their hands bled with papercut stars. She imagined choosing a trivial thing: a smile, a smell, and handing it away like spare change. But the court's hunger had rules that were not written in ink: trivial choices wilted, returning new, hungry emptiness in their place. The payment demanded weight.