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She was doomed to become the Ugly Dark Witch of her childhood tales, no matter what she did. And that was the role she would grow into — damn her heart, damn her dreams of light and sunshine and kind, handsome princes.
Hunger still clawed an endless pit in her belly, and nothing — no one — could ever fill it, placate the beast, satiate her to the marrow.
She was to be always hollow, always a ghost in her own skin, a dream-like mirage of a girl.He couldn't run away. On that, he and his family agreed. He had simply to eradicate the putrescence until he was brand-new, and clean, and more alive than any of those walking, decaying Black corpses would ever be.
He fought death with a thunderous excess of life, until he was gorged with it, until he could drown inside its pulsing, living core.This is a tale where Beast and Beauty are one and the same - where Cinderella plays the role of the Wicked Witch and the handsome, rebellious Prince Charming does not save her. A story of mutual haunting, of an obsession spanning two decades, of transformation - and, perhaps, of love, too.