stuck in the same place i've always been

The day before Priya’s sixteenth birthday started out innocuously, as had every day before it. At the crack of dawn, she was awake, alert, and ready to start the day. Her bedroom was still dark—such was life when you lived in a tower at the bottom of a deep valley—so Priya lit a candle and read off the agenda she’d tacked to her mirror.“Chores, breakfast, reading, climbing, sewing, lunch, ballet, chess, more reading, more climbing aaaaand fencing!” With each item, her smile grew wider and wider. Today was going to be a piece of cake—just like it always was.~~A Tangled AU starring Priya as Rapunzel (Written for Total Drama Writers' Month 2023)