Godmother
“I'D HEARD OF FAIRIES who couldn't find their way once a human heart grabbed hold of them like this. The pain was moving from her to me so fast—the memories, her sickness—that soon there would be nothing left of me. My powers were already almost gone. Concentrate, I thought. I pulled myself up, lifted myself off the ground, stood over her.
“Cinderella,” I said, making the words that I would speak as fierce as I could, willing all my strength into them. “You have to go to the ball. You cannot tur...n your back on your own destiny. I was sent here by the fairies, to get you there. Whatever you feel now, he will erase it.”
She just stared back at me with those hollow eyes.
“Cinderella,” I repeated. “Are you listening to me?”
Her memories were so sharp in my mind. I squeezed my eyes shut, trying to will them away, but they flared up at me like suns. I saw all that her stepmother and stepsisters had done to her. What the servants had done to her. The beatings she had received, the ways her body had been abused.MoreLess
“Cinderella,” I said, making the words that I would speak as fierce as I could, willing all my strength into them. “You have to go to the ball. You cannot tur...n your back on your own destiny. I was sent here by the fairies, to get you there. Whatever you feel now, he will erase it.”
She just stared back at me with those hollow eyes.
“Cinderella,” I repeated. “Are you listening to me?”
Her memories were so sharp in my mind. I squeezed my eyes shut, trying to will them away, but they flared up at me like suns. I saw all that her stepmother and stepsisters had done to her. What the servants had done to her. The beatings she had received, the ways her body had been abused.MoreLess
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