There are certain methods of observation that eludes the layman's perspective due to its inherent particularity. One of these is the technique of widening one's sensual perspective of a situation. That is to say, one needs to utilize all senses unto their utmost limits in order to grasp every detail available to them.
Hypersensitivity. It is an increase in the sensitivity of any of an individual's five major senses: sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste. In most cases, this condition is treated as a disorder of the mind because most people go crazy if they are exposed to extreme amounts of stimuli from their environment. Imagine having an extreme sense of sight, your mind would have to deal with enormous sets of data even by just looking at a tree; like the multitude of colors from its leaves, trunk and branches, the smallest curves of its body, the intricate details of its branching and patterns on its surfaces, all of this information is being introduced to you, yet your mind cannot keep up with this influx. Almost all recorded cases of people having this disorder killed themselves just from the experience of their day to day lives.
However, there is a limited amount of people that has the capability to utilize it by will. These few are able to control their senses from overwhelming them and have developed techniques on how to optimize the benefits that they get from this 'disorder'. Commonly, these experts are only able to control one of the five major senses and has authority over the skills attributed to that particular sense.
For example, someone with "controlled hypervision" may be able to see through the finest details of a fine painting, its smallest dots, the depth at which each color is applied, and even the boundaries at which each color overlaps one another. Nonetheless, they are not pressured and stressed with the amount of information presented to them; their minds have either adapted, or they had superior mentality from the beginning.
Cinderella is one of those individuals. She has discovered when she was locked up that unlike others, she has a developed an extreme sense of hearing; being able to hear the chirps of birds from more than ten houses away and hearing the conversations of her stepmother and stepsisters even from the highest point of the house.
Ever since then, she trained this peculiar talent of hers because she thought that it will be of great use especially if ever she has the need to escape from the house or in any emergency.
This is also one of the reasons how she discovered something that her stepmother had always kept hidden from her. Though she wished that she never knew this from the start. If she could ever go back again, she would just let herself be locked up inside the attic and try her best to live a normal secluded life.
But this is not the time for regrets, in this event holds the opportunity for a change, for an alteration, for a development to occur and she must be a part of it.
*If not, I will initiate that change myself.*
Fixing herself up from the not-so-good first interaction, she noticed that everyone is starting to get anxious. It is possible that the main event is about to happen, the introduction of the prince.
"Pardon my rudeness, but may I inquire if you are from the Aviola Duchy?"
It would appear that someone still has the courage to approach Cinderella even though many have seen her ignore and leave the conversation with the Baron of Eleudin earlier. Cinderella, thinking that she should make it so that nobody would interrupt her thinking anymore, thought of rebuking this person as harsher than with the Baron. She thought of words that would incite 'unapproachability' in the minds of everyone in the grand hall, words that would make them think not twice, but many times if they want to take the initiative in interacting with her.
"I'm afraid I do not have the necessity to answer—," and her thoughts took a turn as she looked at the person talking to her.