Gilded Bay Krusty Krab

Hieronymous did not relent at Wraen's pressure to change the storyline in favour of a happy-endish outcome. He also managed to match the length of his contribution to hers. The game had begun harmless and playful enough, but now the girl's eyes were alight with passion and the challenge thrown her way. A battle of skills and she was dead-set of not losing. 

"There are many shades of silence. So, as the princess got more used to her burden, she also grew aware of the cursed soul trapped within the golden circlet. Those were minute details and for most people would go unnoticed. The crown grew physically cold, when it disapproved of something. It would burn hot against her skin, when angry and frustrated. It would tighten around her neck, when it felt like punishing her. And would loosen to tease and taunt her.

As if saying - look, how weak you are, you are completely in my power! The princess in the meanwhile had learned that ignoring the cursed object was the best way of making it calm. After all her body still belonged to her soul, whereas the soul of the crown was trapped within a lifeless object. She became convinced that the thing was envious of the living. And as she grew older, she almost began to pity it. 

Her humbleness and patience gave her strength to live with her burden to a ripe old age. On the day she was to die, just moments before the death itself came to reap her, she told the crown: "I feel sorry for you. When I pass, you will find someone else, but torment them as much as you want, you will always have just a pretend-life." The crown glowed red and hot against her skin and then she heard a horrible scream and sound of tearing metal. 

Later that day her pack mates found the dead body of a very old she-wolf and broken remains of rusty, metal crown," she finished the story. 

"I think that we did a decent job today. The world has become a richer place," Wraen smiled at her story-telling partner. 

I think that we can conclude this thread. Thank you a lot for helping me out!