The Countess' Captive (The Fairytale Keeper Book 2) - Plot & Excerpts
I am your child,” the girl said. With that she stretched forth both hands and let her father chop them off. –The Girl Without Hands I unshackle my hair from its tightly wound plaits and coils, letting it tumble over my shoulders. Hilde sighs, and I expect her to complain that she shall have to plait it all over, but she says nothing. The throb in my head dulls now that the tension is gone. My knee bounces as I peruse my sloppily written version of Hansel and Gretel—though my mind ventures into anxious worry. In one imagined scenario, I forget the tale mid–telling, standing dumbfounded before a hall filled with disappointed faces. In another, I am jeered, and the people throw their half–eaten food at me. Dozens of times, I banish such thoughts from my head and start reading again from the beginning. At least, I have that part good and memorized. Hilde plays at being my audience. I stammer the tale a half–dozen times, trying to tell it without the parchment.
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