Worldbuilding Bingo - 'Verse now called Arlend, Card 2

To fill a bingo on card one of my Worldbuilding Bingo Card: Culturebuilding. Fashion - Body Types, Housing Arrangements, Fashion - Clothes, Entertainment

In my new world for my YA paro-drama, different characters (although my protag appears in discussion)

"Come on, Shekie, you're going to be late." Miagreth burst into the older-girls' bedroom, her Daybreak-finest twirling as she did a couple pirouettes. For a couple years, it had looked like Miggie was going to be in the Home Office dance corps, but she'd been shoved out in favor of a General's daughter and a Corporal's niece. Their family line was not military-oriented, so Miggie was left dancing for fun and entering reports for a cigarette manufacturer for her vocation. She tugged on her cousin's arm. "You look fine. The dress is beautiful. Come on."

"I don't know." Shekleen twirled around three times in front of the mirror, frowning. "I think it makes me look flat."
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(Range) Ladies' Bingo: Transformation - The Unicorn/Factory & Ursel

Written for my ladiesbingo card after Change and with a nod to Strange

Short Summary: The unicorns keep the water clean for the villages, but the price they demand is maidens... and their children are born from those maidens.

Content Warning: The unicorns in these stories are heavy on the rape metaphor, and it's very heavy in the below story. Also, violence, via unicorn horn, discussed in the past tense.

I think this has an ending but it wasn't sure.

People, as a rule, were not very good at keeping secrets.

The more unusual the information, the worse they were at keeping them close.

There was a girl in Shepachdar's tavern, and she was a unicorn-born who hadn't changed, already an anomaly.

There was a foal in Lastowe that had changed early, and it had grown wings instead of a horn, strange beyond strange - and yet it seemed to be needed.
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