✨💎Crystal climbing in Damsel (2024)💎✨
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✨Crystal climbing✨
"Here we go again."
Elodie picked the same path as last time, because it still locked the most promising. When she got to the part of the wall without handholds and footholds, she said a quicky prayer, then reached up and carefully held onto a flower.
Before using her legs to push herself all the way up, Elodie tested the thickness of her makeshift mittens. They seemed to be all right. Then she wiggled the anthodie to ensure that it really was rooted into the rock and would hold her weight.
It would.
"This better lead to a real escape, V" Elodie said as he pushed up with her legs, her left hand on the first anthrodie, and her right hand grabbing another.
They both held.
Yes!
Elodie climbed at a steady pace, not needing to pause as long between moves since she didn't need to search out rocks to latch on to; there were more than enough flowers to serve as handholds and footholds. The swallows flew back in from above and swirled around her, singing their buoyant, flutelike melody as if cheering her on. As Elodie climbed higher, the light also got brighter. Perhaps it was only because the sun was rising outside. But she liked to think of it as a marker of progress, a promise that the end to this ordeal was near.
From Pages 195-196 of paperback movie-tie-in edition of Damsel, by Evelyn Skye
"Get down! Ladies don't act like that!" Flora had yelled, catching her once.
The other aunts had looked at their leader with skeptical faces.
"Well...I mean...they don't. She won't be able to when...you know," she had continued in a way that hadn't made sense until now.
"Maybe if more princesses climbed rocks, the world wouldn't be in the state it's in," Merryweather remarked with her usual crankiness. At the time Rose thought she meant princess in a generally snarky way.
"Well, we should try to remain consistent," Fauna said reasonably. "Are we raising her to be a lady or a girl in the woods? We never discussed that, really."
"Oh, I don't know, that's a fair point," Flora said, putting a hand to her head. "She has so much natural grace and mobility. Let's discuss it further but let her be for now."
The young Briar Rose had latched on to the let her be part and had forgotten everything else.
I always picture young!Aurora as the dreamworld version of young Emma Swan in the Enchanted Forest
From page 292 of the paperback version of Once Upon a Dream, of the Twisted Tales series, by Liz Braswell