Present Day (Part One)

"Sleep well now, sweet Tae. Sleep forever, if you want. Not like anyone loves you enough to wake you up, anyway...not like anyone could even if they wanted to" Kali's beautiful features were tainted with distaste as she stroked the cheek of the cursed sleeping prince with the back of gentle fingers that heavily contrasted her words.

"They thought mother was being merciful when she decreed eighteen years ago today that true love's kiss would be able to awaken you. Ah, but alas...such a thing does not exist. The words they praised as their saving grace was, instead, a mockery of their foolish beliefs" It's a shame, really, for a girl so beautiful to live with a heart this dark...a heart so tormented.

"How does it feel to know that everyone loves you, everyone except me, yet nobody still can awaken you? Even mother, who loves you more than her own child, is unable to break her own curse with a kiss because it is not one of true love? Well, if you can feel anything at all in this state, that is; in such a deep, cursed slumber." Most certainly, jealousy does not suit her well at all.