PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT OF PRINCESS COUNCIL MEETING, SESSION 343, DAY 4 PART ONE: OPENING STATEMENTS COUNCILOR, who is a whale Greetings, anvils, anchors, cords, ropes. Set down ye masks to talk plain with us. Who moves to open session for this high council ? Unanimous votes engage session. Ahoy! Before we take audience with members, few proclamations or announcements must be yelped: Passes to the dining zone will now come but once a year with your membership, not quarterly as before. Pickle, laminate or preserve your pass for we do not offer replacements. Secondly, waste cleanup shall take place twice as often, and be a required part of council duties going forward. Any questions can be directed to your team captain but they may or may not be answered. Barring any additional public blurts to be made, we welcome our first audience. Today we hear the plea of one of own flock who has shirked her duties, often participating in the Great Wallow for less than half of the required time each day. We will discuss her membership going forward. She may, of course, make her case to us, as part of our great council’s custom. Heave, then, as we open the floor for thee. PART 2 : THE PRINCESS’ APPEAL PRINCESS, who is on trial I once burst with salty tears from both my breasts. Now the tune has changed. My ducts are dry. My sides no longer split with briny water. I, once a sad sack stuffed to the seams.Now the tune has changed.I am a block of ice in a sack. You came to me in my time of need. Offering companionship in sorrow.I found solace in the routine. The daily purging of our sorrow in the great lakes of the Earth. Now, because of this support, my spirit is stable. PART 3: DEBATE + SENTENCING COUNCILOR As we see it, you have broken several key covenants. First and foremost, the duties of the Great Wallow. Secondly, your relations. You were found in sweet embrace with a scaled fish. We are your support, only in sadness. Socializing must be interpreted as sin. PRINCESS Yet time moves on. The boundary of our sea and encompassing realms cracks. Our ancient understanding ceases to explain our world. Changes are necessary. COUNCILOR Changes are necessary when we deem changes are necessary. PRINCESS I have left a positive mark on this organization. What more can I do? COUNCILOR Positivity is out of our purview. Shrink now, you will be escorted out. You will lose your princess form, princess sight, return to your human shell, never dwell on the sea. This is are final judgment. Next audience please step forward