The Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil Gaiman

Author:Neil Gaiman [Neil Gaiman]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781408868539
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2015-03-26T05:00:00+00:00

She walked towards the sleeping girl in the dusty white dress. Then she lowered her hand. “No. I cannot. I wish to all the gods I could.”

All of her senses were fading with age, but she thought she heard voices from the forest. Long ago she had seen them come, the princes and the heroes, watched them perish, impaled upon the thorns of the roses, but it had been a long time since anyone, hero or otherwise, had reached as far as the castle.

“Eh,” she said aloud, as she said so much aloud, for who was to hear her? “Even if they come, they’ll die screaming on the thorns. There’s nothing they can do. That anyone can do. Nothing at all.”

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