Played and Performed by Annie Horton

Bought and Sold is one of the quietest and most devastating moments in A Clockwork Heart. Stripped back to a slow, aching tempo in A minor, this reprise follows Rose as she confronts her reflection and the brutal reality of what she has become. Alone with an old guitar and a cracked mirror, she sings of lost innocence, stolen choice, and a world that now treats her as an object to be traded. As Minuet watches from the shadows; Rose’s resignation fractures into a raw, desperate refusal. Intimate, sparse, and emotionally exposed, Bought and Sold is the sound of a spirit breaking and still daring to say no.

(ROSE retreats behind a changing screen. She re-emerges slowly, her dress is shorter and she is draped in red. She walks to the cracked mirror, stares at hers ...