The Sleeping Beauty - Book 1 - Chapter 41
After capturing the magic user and her friend, I travelled back to my library. There was no hurry to summon the prisoners. They could rot in my dungeon.
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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After capturing the magic user and her friend, I travelled back to my library. There was no hurry to summon the prisoners. They could rot in my dungeon.
In the meantime, I needed to find the right spell in all my notes. It had not been part of my plan, but when I realized the girl had a physical body, my mind crackled alive with the possibilities.
Hera had given me unlimited power to help her break out of the Dream Realm and return to the universe, but I still did not have enough power to succeed, which meant I needed to find another way. I didn’t necessarily want an angry god roaming the universe, and I just wanted to return to Earth in any way I could. If that meant working with Hera, then so be it, but there were other ways to return to Earth and I had studied them all. I only helped her because there was no other option.
I walked to the back of the room and flicked through a stack of old books until I found the one I was looking for. Wiping the dust and soot from the book, I cracked it open and started skimming. I had made meticulous notes on every page, but carefully—the book was older than almost anything in the library. Older than me. For all I knew, it was older than Hera as well.
I found the passage I needed. Soul binding: A method of necromancy which binds a soul into a living host body, effectively extracting the original soul and allowing the new one to manipulate the body.
The gorgon girl had a body and a soul, which meant she also had the spark of the gods, and that made her the most powerful being in all Urgu, save for the gods themselves. With her power combined with me, even the Fates could not keep the door to their keep closed from me.
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.