Princess Yothiblircs (Thibli for short) made her way to the selection of her fourth and final body double. Princess Thibli had fair skin, brown eyes, and big red curly hair. Thibli and her three new body doubles rode in a howdah on the back of a massive cuovquaihn, when the first fossil of a cuovquaihn would be discovered on the surface world in 1972, the people of the surface world would call it supersaurus. While the supersaurus was already a formidable form of protection, Princess Thibli's ride was also escorted by a group of Wluwoi knights riding on their tozyxraimquaihns. When the first fossil of a tozyxraimquaihn would be discovered on the surface world in 1933, the people of the surface world would call it Indosaurus.
Among the Wluwoi knights was Goipoth, who had been Princess Thibli's best friend since he had become one of her personal guards when they were both 13. Goipoth looked up at Thibli and called out "Yothiblircs, we're almost to this province's most prominent Wluwoi Knights fortress."
Thibli yelled in response "I know, I'm higher up than you buddy, I can see it."
Goipoth laughed, but then an older Wluwoi Knight said to Goipoth "You should call her the Princess while in public." It was Goipoth's abusive former master, and new head of the Wluwoi Knights Cmayeecehw (Cmayee for short).
Goipoth replied "You aren't my master anymore Cmayee, be thankful nobody can see the anger I have towards you while I have my mask on."
Cmayee responded "One day you'll see that it's never about you Goipoth."
The royal supersaurus pulled up alongside the outside of a stadium, and Princess Thibli and her three body doubles exited their howdah onto a deck 20 feet above the ground.
The stadium outside of the fortress was typically used for audiences to view indosaurus jousting, but today every 18-year-old girl from the Grasslands Province was there with their families, awaiting the decision of which one of them would become Princess Thibli's fourth body double. Goipoth, Thibli, and her body doubles entered the royal box, while Cmayee road through the aisles on his indosaurus, looking for the girl from the Grasslands Province who most closely resembled the princess.
When May saw Princess Thibli enter the royal box all of her confidence that she wouldn't be chosen wears off in an instant when she realizes how much she actually does resemble the princess. "Oh no." May groaned.
Losh puts his hand on May's shoulder and says "what's wrong sweetheart?"
May says nervously "I didn't realize that she actually kind of looks like me, if you looked at us from a distance, besides our skin tones we look a lot alike. And of course, her hair has a different texture than mine, but we both have big hair and it's pretty much the same shade of red."
Yash holds May's hands and says "Now don't you worry May. Just remember, me and Losh, we're your fathers. We're never going to let anything bad happen to you, even if you do get chosen as Princess Yothiblircs' body double."
Losh adds "also, Yash and I were both Wluwoi Knights, we would help you learn about riding Indosaurs just like royal body doubles have to learn."
Yash continues "Also you're probably not going to be chosen, there's tons of redheads here who will probably bear a much closer resemblance to Princess Yothiblircs than you do."
May looked all around the stadium and couldn’t find many other redheads.
While it may not have been entirely justified, Thibli was just as nervous as May. Even though this was the fourth time in the last couple of days she had told the story of how the deities Xuthpaiet and Wluwoi had created Tozyxraim (the inner world) and the place of the Xraimyaig Empire with the inner world, Thibli still hated public speaking.
Goipoth puts his hand on Thibli's shoulder and says "You got this, it's the last time, you're gonna do great!"
Thibli signals to Cmayee to silence the crowd. Cmayee slaps the side of his indosaurus' head and it lets out a roar, letting the crowd know to be silent.
Thibli took a deep breath and then began to speak. "Many eons before the time of humanity, there was only a never-ending outer space, populated only by a few celestial beings. The celestial beings were like the animals that inhabit Tozyxraim alongside us now, except that they were of indescribably large size. Amongst these celestial beings was the celestial nothosaur, Wluwoi. Wluwoi knew of no other beings like her, and seldom saw other celestials. Her lonely and beautiful song echoed across endless space for few to hear. In time, another celestial nothosaur heard Wluwoi's song, and her name was Xuthpaiet. Wluwoi was happy to have finally made a friend. Wluwoi and Xuthpaiet continued to sing to each other across immeasurable distance, and eventually they fell in love. It took millennia, but eventually Wluwoi and Xuthpaiet found each other. They longed to never again be apart from each other, so they held hands and wrapped their long necks and tails around each other in an embrace that will continue to last until the end of time. The space in-between Xuthpaiet and Wluwoi became our Tozyxraim, the inner world. Our Tozyxraim has four continents with four pillars, great mountains connecting our world to the ceiling of the cavern, which is Wluwoi's body, and she helps Xuthpaiet to protect us from outer space. The four pillars are where Xuthpaiet and Wluwoi's hands touch. One of the continents is ours while another belongs to the Mroolozwanph Empire. We are the Xraimyaig people, the world heart, and we the royal family are a part of the love song between Xuthpaiet and Wluwoi. We are gathered here today to select with the will of Xuthpaiet and Wluwoi, the fourth doppelganger of myself, Princess Yothiblircs, to become a part of the great love song between our goddesses.
The next few minutes were tense as Cmayee's Indosaurs stalked through the aisles looking for the perfect match. At one point after the speech, Xnewtyan said "It was a good speech and all, but in order to be part of a celestial love song, we would all have to actually love each other and really understand what love is.”
Eventually the shadow of the indosaurus loomed over the row of seats that May, her fathers, and Xnewtyan were in. Cmayee said with no emotion "You, the eleventh girl in, you're chosen."
May trembled at the realization that she had been chosen. Yash embraced May and yelled "Cmayee please!"
Cmayee replies "Ah, Yashxloo and Naiyulosh, I almost didn't recognize you, and this must be your daughter."
Losh says to May "Don't worry, we'll be to the palace before you are."
May walks into the aisle just as Thibli walks down to greet her. Thibli awkwardly holds her arm out and says "Hi. What's your name?"
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