The Sleeper and the Spindle

Neil Gaiman

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You may think you know this story. There's a young queen, about to be married. There are some good, brave, hardy dwarfs; a castle, shrouded in thorns; and a princess, cursed by a witch, so rumour has it, to sleep forever. But no one is waiting for a noble prince to appear on his trusty steed here. This fairy tale is spun with a thread of dark magic, which twists and turns and glints and shines. A queen might just prove herself a hero, if a princess needs rescuing.
It was the closest kingdom to the Queen's, as the crow flies, but not even the crows flew it.
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But there was no such pass to be found, and so, although the kingdoms shared a common border, nobody crossed from one kingdom to the next.
The queen woke early that morning. "A week from today," she said aloud. "A week from today, I shall be married."
It seemed both unlikely and extremely final. She wondered how she would feel to be a married woman. It would be the end of her life, she decided, if life was a time of choices. In a week from now, she would have no choices. She would reign over her people. She would have children. Perhaps she would die in childbirth, perhaps she would die as an old woman, or in battle. But the path to her death, heartbeat by heartbeat, would be inevitable.
Each hammer blow sounded like a heartbeat.
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