The Sleeping Beauty - Book 1 - Chapter 32
“It’s been too long,” I said, turning around and heading back towards where we’d left Chelle.
Fairy tales are real.
Rose Briar is a diabetic college student without insurance. She’s been scraping by through a combination of maxing out credit cards and relying upon the kindness of strangers.
Unfortunately, she’s spent every dollar at her disposal. There’s no money left to buy her life-saving insulin.
Without her medication, Rose falls into a diabetic coma. She tumbles into a deep slumber and wakes up in a fantastical place called the Dream Realm, where fairy tales and legends of old are still very much alive.
She has one chance to wake up.
She must trek across the world, visit the most powerful object in the land, the Obsidian Spindle, and entreat with the fates; the only beings powerful enough to send her soul back to Earth.
But evil forces don’t want her to leave. They will stop at nothing to capture her and make sure she never goes home again.
Now, with the help of her half-gorgon girlfriend and a mysterious red rider, Rose must race across the land fighting dragons, monsters, and the forces of the Wicked Witch, Nimue, in order to reach the Obsidian Spindle before her body dies on Earth and she’s trapped in the Dream Realm forever.
Will she be able to wake up? Can she survive? Find out by reading The Sleeping Beauty today. If you love mythology, fairy tales, and dark fantasy, then you’ll love the first book in The Obsidian Spindle Saga.
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“It’s been too long,” I said, turning around and heading back towards where we’d left Chelle.
Red caught up with me and put a hand on my shoulder. “She’s fighting a dragon. It’s not too long.”
“Oh my god. I asked her to fight a dragon!” I broke free of Red’s grasp. “Why would I tell her to fight a dragon? What kind of girlfriend does that?”
There was a long silence. “A bad one.”
“What!” I shouted. “You just said she’s going to be fine.”
“All right, you caught me. I have no idea if she’s going to be fine. I don’t know her. She seems like a fighter though. Is she a fighter?”
I smiled. “Yeah, she’s a fighter.”
“Then she’s got a better shot than most. Do you trust her?”
“Of course I trust her. I don’t trust the dragon.”
“I can’t fight a dragon, Rose. Neither can you. The only person who stands a shot is Chelle, because she’s a monster, too.”
“She’s not a monster!”
“Whoa, easy, tiger. I wasn’t saying it to offend. I meant she has magic flowing through her, like a dragon does. The best thing we can do is get to the Happy Dragon and wait for her.”
“What if she doesn’t come?”
There was another long moment. “She’ll come.”
“And what if she doesn’t?”
Red looked me in the eyes. “Do you really want to have that conversation now?”
I gulped. “I really don’t.”
Red held out her hand. “Then let’s go.”
I looked back one last time through the trees, hoping that Chelle would come back out and tell me everything was okay, but it was only a pipe dream. I had doomed the love of my life, really the only thing in the world that I loved, to near certain death.
Fairy tales are real.
Find out by reading The Sleeping Beauty today. If you love mythology, fairy tales, and dark fantasy, then you’ll love the first book in The Obsidian Spindle Saga.
Paid subscribers can access the entire archive of this series from the beginning, along with other series and every article I’ve ever written. If you aren’t a paid subscriber, you can access the archive for free with a 7-day trial.