Once Upon a Time: A Story Collection by Shannon Hale

Author:Shannon Hale
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Juvenile Fiction / Short Stories, Puppets, Juvenile Fiction / Social Issues / Friendship, Juvenile Fiction / Media Tie-In, Juvenile Fiction / Fairy Tales & Folklore / General, Juvenile Fiction / Toys, Dolls
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2014-10-21T00:00:00+00:00

For he’s a jolly good Charming!

For he’s a jolly good Charming!

Let’s give him a piece of pie!

Several forkfuls of charmberry-rhubarb pie later, Darling joined him at the incredibly long banquet table.

“Charity’s back with her family,” Darling whispered. “No one noticed she was missing.”

“How did you even get her out?”

“I picked the dungeon door lock and then forced the bars of her cell with a steel spear,” Darling said. “Don’t tell anyone. Mother… wouldn’t approve.”

“You forced the…” Dexter stared at his sister.

Darling darted her eyes around. “Stop staring at me. Try to act normal.”

“That’s just awesome,” Dexter said. “That’s all. I mean, I always knew you were awesome, just not in so many different ways.”

“Let’s keep those extra ways between us, okay? Charity said she’s going to pretend nothing happened, and I’m good with that.”

“All right,” Dexter said. “I just… you know, I defeated a changeling, which was my first real monster, and nobody knows.”

“I know,” Darling said.

“That’s true,” Dexter said.

“And you did retrieve the Crochet Hook of Aunt Arachne. Everyone knows that.”

“But Charity was the fearless one really,” Dexter said. “I guess I just wish… I wish…”

He hesitated to say more. There were lots of things he wished, but wishes were often magic, and Prince Charming destinies were not ones of magic but of heroism. But if he’d been a wood-carver looking up at a star, or an orphaned Cinderella visiting her mother’s grave, he’d have wished to know his destiny and somehow feel prepared to face it.

Darling grabbed his hand and raised it over his head. “All hail the fearless champion of the crochet hook!” she shouted.

A chorus of “Huzzah!” and “Hear! Hear!” sounded around the room.

Dexter smiled and shrugged. “All hail me,” he said.

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