The Ice Princess's Fair Illusion by Dove Cooper

Author:Dove Cooper
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Kraken Collective
Published: 2021-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

I’ll be so disappointed,

Though, Edel. We put

A lot of hard work into

Making that place into

Something more like

A home for us while

We were there.

I remember.

You’d better.

You were there.

The mirror wasn’t.

What?

The mirror.

The one that had

Changed my appearance

Enough that no one could

Recognise me as myself.

It wasn’t there

When we got to the hovel.

Oh.

…

Oh!

You were looking

For it when we

First got there!

I remember now.

We arrived at

The hovel and

It was horrible and

Nasty and terrible

And you dashed

Into the corner and

I couldn’t understand

Why because you didn’t

Say a word to me.

I apologise, but I did

Think it best not to tell you.

I thought… I don’t know.

I thought maybe the mirror

Would at least… help?

I didn’t realise until

That moment that I didn’t

Want to follow the woman’s

Advice, but the mirror was gone.

I looked and looked and I must

Have torn the whole hovel apart,

Insofar as I could and it just

Wasn’t there. I didn’t know

How to tell you, Marian.

I know. It’s all right.

But after that we had

To clean the whole

Hovel again and sort

Out where we were

Going to stay and what

We were going to do.

You would have spent

All our money on furniture.

You didn’t even

Let us buy proper beds!

We had to be frugal,

Marian, and as comfortable

As beds are, they are not

Essential either.

I’ll never forgive

Father for making us poor.

Oh, come now.

He set us up

Quite generously,

Provided we were careful.

Poor. And don’t

Present it as kindness,

Edel. You know it wasn’t.

It was, dear.

Just not the kindness

You deserved or expected.

It was not kindness.

I’m no good with money.

Papa would have known that.

And he —

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