thirteenth dance | video;

[quackery]

[When the video switches on, Ahiru is sitting on her bed flipping hurriedly through a book - Grimm's Fairy Tales. She'd had a few days of free time on her hands at the beginning of the week, and she's taken the opportunity to make a trip to the library. Once she had read the other books and started on this one, she had grown more and more dismayed at the contents.]

'The wolf found them all and did not delay, but swallowed them all up one after another.'

'If the thirteenth child should be a girl, then shall her twelve brothers die, that her riches may be great, and that the kingdom may fall to her alone.'

'Get up, you lazy thing, and fetch some water to cook something good for your brother, who must remain in that stall and get fat; when he is fat enough I will eat him.'

[She pauses for a moment, staring in vague horror at the book.]

I-I know... None of this is actually true, but aren't fairy tales supposed to be happy? I mean, good things are supposed to be happening in them! Not things like - people or goats getting eaten or little boys getting killed by their parents or people locked in towers their whole lives or separated from the people they love! Even if it's fake, that's really... Really sad.

Are all stories from everyone's homes like this?

[If any Phancyhive residents want to action it up, she's currently in her room!]