I haven't finished revisiting Sleeping Beauty. As a faerie tale, that one is rife with inherent difficulties. After all, the world doesn't stop just because one person is asleep.

“Now I have a question," Otto wrote. "Fire away.""What do you see in him?""Apart…”

“Bren's eyes always drew me, until I found myself drawing them.”

“I can't think about him, but I can't forget him, either. It's not right to forg…”

“I smiled. I was starting to like being called Briar Rose.”