“Oh Lu…” Susan says the first time she’s asked, “No, you’re still just a kid, you don’t need to cover yourself in makeup to make people pay attention.”

She doesn’t know what to make of the heartache in her sister’s voice, so it only makes her rally, “I know that, I could manage that with a bare face the first time around, but I just… Susan, I want to be like you.”

She sighs, and finally says, “One year, then we’ll start with the basics,” but by the time the year is out Lucy has felt for the third time what it means to be a Queen, while Susan has not, and she does not ask to learn again.