✨♟️"She's a valuable chess piece."♟️✨

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Emma/Belle parallels (2x09)

Tiny like a princess. Useless. Unwanted. A girl tossed aside until it was time to marry.  A strategic alliance.  A useful pawn.

From page 166 of the paperback version of Once Upon a Dream, of the Twisted Tales series, by Liz Braswell



[Aurora is] going back to being a regular human girl in a world where princesses are used as pawns and never have any sort of real power of their own.

From page 363 of the paperback version of Once Upon a Dream, of the Twisted Tales series, by Liz Braswell