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"Their most honored and exalted excellencies, the Three Good Fairies; Mistress Flora, Mistress Fauna, and Mistress Merryweather!"
Sparkles appeared at the corners of her vision. She was both relieved and scared; she really was sick. About to faint, even...
But the sparkles weren't golden or silver as they were normally when she felt light-headed. They were red, green, and blue. They coalesced into three distinct balls of color instead of dissipating when she took a few breaths.
The little balls danced around the room in a manner that suggested intelligence... Like they were looking for someone or something that might be hiding.
As Aurora crawled back onto her bed away from them, she noticed detachedly that when they came close to a solid object, their pale lights illuminated it and cast its shadow. Like real lights. Not hallucinations.
She blinked, her eyes taking a moment to get used to their brightness being so close. As soon as she could see properly again, Aurora realized that there were things in the centers of the lights.
Little living things.
Things that looked suspiciously like tiny women. One in each light.... The princess began to panic, These were fairies.
From pages 86-87 of the
paperback version of
Once Upon a Dream, of the
Twisted Tales series, by Liz Braswell