Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
Cinderella? Snow White? What's that? An illness?
Fairytales by nature only talk about the victors. The survivors. Nobody speaks about what happens to those who failed, except in the abstract: as cautionary tales to guide others onto the path to success. How many brave knights fell to the dragon before he was slayed by the noble prince? How many children burned to a crisp and eaten before the wicked witch received her due? These stories are lost, but the lesson behind them is not: it is not enough to be merely pure and good.
You’re my princess, right? You were always going to be my princess, no matter what you were born, no matter who your dad married.
