text: Juniper is immensely powerful, but trusting. They were easily gulled by the King into entering the Crystal of their own will, by using his own sister as bait. The King sends Juniper on a quest to find the traitors who plot against their family, all the while being the puppet-master behind events. By using Nettle, a helpless baby, as bait to capture Juniper, two powerful Starlight Heir’s can be trapped at once, hence greater Lifelight extraction. The Starlight Princess learned of the plot to use Nettle and swapped her with a crude doll between her being placed in the Crystal by the King’s minons  + fantasy + myth + religion + gouache + ni ni kuni style --ar 9:16