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A prick of madness What do you know of the maid cursed to prick her finger and die? Oh? A hundred year sleep and prince's kiss? You know nothing. I was cursed to madness and death. The little fairy tried to save me, but you couldn't expect her to remember madness with death in the air. I grew up as legends say. Though, my hair is black as night and I'm freckled. Folk tend to exaggerate a princess' beauty. I am by no means a classic beauty, nor a hideous wretch. Not graceful, willowy, or socially shining, I feel more at home in the library or at weaponry practice with the squires then at a ball or dancing. My biggest flaw is my most deadly,

"Umiko, you know that we were not always this well off." "Yes, soon after Father married you, he lost everything. Then a year after I was born, We regained our family's wealth." "Do you know why we regained it all, Angelfish?" "No, Father." "We have been able to afford all that we have because of our last blessed Daimyo. You see, Umiko, when you were a year, the Daimyo came to us late one night. His Supremacy offered to pay off our debts and restore our family's esteem, in return we would marry you to his son. The real catch was we had to marry you then and there. So you see Umiko you are our current Daimyo's bride." "No that's impossible. Ch

Faster! I must swim FASTER! Umiko thought on the verge of panic. A poison squidray loomed behind her, reaching it's deadly tentacles toward her. If it touched just a strand of her streaming hair, Umiko would surely die. She glanced behind her. No! It's too close. Steadily getting closer and closer. Umiko squeezed her dark aqua eyes shut. Something seized her arm. This is it, Umiko thought. Death. But death did not come, instead she was jerked painfully forward. Tentatively, Umiko peeped her eyes opened. Bubbles shot past, as a red blur drug her threw the ocean. She squeezed her eyes shut, as tightly as possible. Suddenly they jerked to a st