Snow White was a (cycling-link:"fair","white", "blonde", "yellow", "icy")-haired girl who barely spoke a word and often lost herself (cycling-link: "daydreaming about life in the far off kingdom", "doing housework", "reading stories of made-up lands").
Her sister Rose Red was quite the opposite.
While Rose Red spent her mornings chopping firewood and churning butter for breakfast, Snow White preferred spending her mornings tending to their sheepish dog, Winston and mending the [[tattered blankets from the beds]].
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[Rose Red was a (cycling-link: "spunky", "fiesty", "loud"), firey-haired girl who befriended every person and creature she met. While Snow White sat inside reading or dreaming of fairytales, Rose Red spent her time exploring the outdoors.
Her sister Snow White was quite the opposite.]
While Snow White spent her mornings fawning over their impish dog and daydreaming of far off lands, Rose Red preferred to bundle up and gather firewood, but today was [[far too cold]] for that.
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(enchant: "Snow White", (text-colour: fuchsia) + (text-style:'bold'))Just edging out her sister, Snow White reached for the knob, and without an ounce of hesitation [[gently opened the door open]] revealing a remarkably furry creature on the other side.
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(enchant: "Snow White", (text-colour: fuchsia) + (text-style:'bold'))Just edging out her sister, Rose Red reached for the knob, and without an ounce of hesitation [[pulled the door open]] to see a remarkably furry creature.
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(enchant: "Snow White", (text-colour: fuchsia) + (text-style:'bold'))Before letting the bear get out another sound, Rose Red wielded her wooden stick and warned the bear to back off.
Noticing the bear puff itself in the door way, Rose Red:
[[Backed down from the fight, and let Snow White handle the bear.]]
[[Charged towards the bear.]]
[[Kept the bear at a distance, but try to speak with it, what's there to lose?]]
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(enchant: "Snow White", (text-colour: fuchsia) + (text-style:'bold'))[[Rose Red reached for the knob faster than her sister.]]
[[Snow White reached for the knob faster than her sister.]]
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(enchant: "Snow White", (text-colour: fuchsia) + (text-style:'bold'))Much to her surprise, the bear began to (cycling-link: "speak", "growl", "greet her by name")
In her usual kind spirits, Snow White spoke back to the bear before (link-reveal: "proposing he come inside to warm up.")
[ He was a talking bear after all, [[what could go wrong?!]]]
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(enchant: "Snow White", (text-colour: fuchsia) + (text-style:'bold'))(link-reveal: "Snow White") [ (no, not the one with the dwarfs)] and Rose Red
A Brother's Grimm Fairytale with A Twist by Juliet Scott
[[Once Upon A Time...]]
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Once upon a time, in a small cottage by the edge of the woods, lived a widower and her two young daughters: [[Snow White]] and [[Rose Red]].
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(enchant: "Snow White", (text-colour: fuchsia) + (text-style:'bold'))One morning while handling a particularly gnarly hole in her mother's blanket, Snow White was whisked out of a daydream by a (link-reveal: "noise at the door") [
(link-reveal: "thud...thud...thud...")[
Blaming the noise on the bitter winter winds of the forest, Snow White returned to her sewing, and began to thread a new (link-reveal: "needle.") [
(link-reveal: "Thud...Thud...Thud...")[
Finally, Snow White [[turned to her sister]]
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(enchant: "thud...", (text-style:'blink'))
(enchant: "Thud...", (text-style:'blink'))
(text-style: "blink")["THUD...THUD...THUD"]
The noise was growing unbearable.
Should they open it?
[[Yes]]
[[No, it's probably nothing]]
[[Who will open it?]]
So instead she got a head-start churning the butter from the milk she went to the village to buy.
With each tap of the wooden pole, Rose Red composed a (link-reveal: "song from her work")[
(link-reveal: "tap-tap, tap, tap-tap, tap, tap-tap...")[
(link-reveal: "Falling into the pattern of her work, Rose Red noticed")[ (link-reveal: "a pounding pulsating under her melody")[
(link-reveal: "thud...thud...thud...")[
Curious to know if these sounds were simply in her head, Rose Red [[turned to her sister]].
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(enchant: "tap-tap", (text-style: 'blink'))
(enchant: "tap", (text-style:'fade-in-out'))[[Both girls rushed to the door.]]
The wind always howls like crazy this time of the year.
(link-reveal: "We are at the edge of the forest afterall")
[[THUD...THUD...THUD]]. (link-reveal: "The sisters debated who should open the door,")[
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'Mother always has me open the door!' said Snow White.")[
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'Yeah, because if there were ever a time to follow Mother's rules this is it'. Retorted Rose Red.")[
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'I suppose you're right.' Snow White replied.") [
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'Let me just...'Rose Red trailed off.") [
"I DON'T THINK THERE'S TIME FOR THAT" shrieked Snow White, louder than she'd ever spoken. [["THE DOOR IS CRACKING!"]]".]
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(enchant: "trailed off", (text-style: 'subscript'))
(enchant: "THE DOOR IS CRACKING!", (text-style:'bold'))With her back to the door, Rose Red looked kept out the window, longing for springtime and trips to the village.
(link-reveal: "She felt a warm hand on her shoulder. Thinking it to be her sister, she quickly turned to swat her off").
[But when she turned around it [[wasn't her sister she saw]]]
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(enchant: "Snow White", (text-colour: fuchsia) + (text-style:'bold'))Before long, the girls noticed [[a claw]] ripping through their (cycling-link: "flimsy", "strong", "thick, wooden") door.Looking into the eye of the beast, Rose Red had little time to think before the bear's mouth enveloped her completely. [[THE END]].
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[CRUNCH]
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With little time to think, the sisters decide to barricade the door as swiftly as possible, in the hopes of delaying their unwelcome guest.
What should they use to jam the door?
[[Rose Red's butter churn]]
[[Mother's rocking chair]]
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(enchant: "Snow White", (text-colour: fuchsia) + (text-style:'bold'))(link-reveal: "It works!")
[Sliding the long pole under the knob bolsters the caving door.
Snow White surveys the room looking for the next material].
Should she?
[[Carry over the bundles of fire by the fire-place to create a jigsaw of support?]]
[[Try to push the wooden table in the kitchen?]]
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(enchant: "Snow White", (text-colour: fuchsia) + (text-style:'bold'))The chair is too weak.
It cracks under the pressure.
[[The beast claws through the door.]]
This is all of the firewood they have.
Better not risk it.
[[Try to push the wooden table in the kitchen?]].
It's going to take all of Snow White's strength to push the table. But she can't leave Red Rose pushed up against the door for much longer.
(text-style: "shudder")[PUSH]
Leaving one hand on the door, Rose Red reaches for the edge of the table and the sisters push table against the door.
One more thing will make the table sturdy enough to block the beast behind the door... but what?
[[the cast iron pot sitting by the hearth]]
[[the dog]]
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(enchant: "Snow White", (text-colour: fuchsia) + (text-style:'bold'))(link-reveal: "Mustering all of their strength Snow White and Rose Red lift the pot onto the door.")
[What once was a thud soon (text-style: "fade-in-out") [fades] into the distance.]
[[Well, I suppose that marks the end... ]]
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(enchant: "Snow White", (text-colour: fuchsia) + (text-style:'bold'))You really thought sacrificing the dog would be a good thing?
[[The beast claws through the door.]][[THE END]]
Don't open your doors to strangers kids! If you pull a Home Alone, the bad guys will disappear and you can go about your provincial life unharmed!
Until we meet again!
Because this is a fairy tale, we will pretend the innocent girl letting in a woodland creature is entirely normal, in fact necessary to complete her image.
[[back to the talking bear]]...
"I'm no animal whisperer... That's Snow White's thing... Even still I've gotta go [[back to the talking bear]], you just can't make this stuff up!
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(enchant: "Snow White", (text-colour: fuchsia) + (text-style:'bold'))Did you really think that was the right idea? Even in a fairy tale the girl knows not to challenge the hyper-masculine creature before her.
And so this must be [[THE END]]. The perfect balance between sweet and predictable and standing her ground.
[[Only slightly put off, the bear begins to speak with Rose Red.]]"Well, don't just stand there, it's the dead of winter and we'll all freeze if the door isn't closed in a minute, your call" Rose Red challenged the bear.
Taken aback the bear moved inside, smacking the door shut behind him with his stubby brown tail.
"So, why are you here?"
"Well, I need your help wit..."
"OUR HELP?!?! But, you're a talking bear, I doubt there's anything we can do to [[help...]]"
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(enchant: "Snow White", (text-colour: fuchsia) + (text-style:'bold'))"Well, I'm running from a dwarf(link-reveal: ",") [ a terribly, pathetic little thing more akin to a garden gnome,] filled in my den with dirt, trapping my [[brother]] underground!"
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(enchant: "Snow White", (text-colour: fuchsia) + (text-style:'bold'))"Brother", Rose Red retorted in disbelief, "animals have those?"
Snow White chimed in, "well of course they can!"
"Anywho," the bear interjected, "my lack of thumbs makes it far too difficult for me to dig into my den."
"So you want us to [[dig]]?"
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(enchant: "Snow White", (text-colour: fuchsia) + (text-style:'bold'))And dig they did.
(link-reveal: "DIG")[
(link-reveal: "DIG")[
(link-reveal: "DIG")[
(link-reveal: "DIG")[
[[until they could dig no more]]]
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(enchant: "DIG", (text-colour: "saddlebrown") + (text-style:'bold'))Their shovels make a horrible noise, worse than the sound of, (cycling-link: "nails on a chalkboard", "grinding teeth", "a baby crying") as they hit up against a layer of stone.
Exhausted by their work, the sisters stop to figure out how to break the stone and free the bear. In the silence of their fatigue, they hear a (link-reveal: "chuckle") [
It's the [[dwarf]]].
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(enchant: "Snow White", (text-colour: fuchsia) + (text-style:'bold'))(link-reveal: "Not the kind of fairy tale dwarf the girls were expecting!") [;)
(link-reveal: "'That stupid bear really thought two girls could beat me?'")[
(link-reveal: "'And we're going to!'") [
(link-reveal: "Rose Red [[raised her shovel at the dwarf]].") [
(link-reveal: "'Not so fast!'") [
To crack the stone you must first solve a [[riddle]]"]
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(link-reveal: "Here is your first riddle:")
[ What can you break without ever picking it up or touching it?
1. [[A Promise]]
or
2. [[Nothing]]
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(enchant: "or", (text-style: "bold"))"Wow it sure has been a long time in that dreadful hole" a voice emerging from the den begins to say.
The sisters take a few steps back, expecting another bear disgruntled by months in the ground.
But much to their surprise it is not a bear who emerges, (link-reveal: "but a handsome") [, albeit filthy, prince].
Taken aback by the sight of a prince, the girls hear the voice of the other bear showering them in thanks. (link-reveal: "They turn to see, not the bear they'd grown accustomed to but a prince") [ Because, naturally that's what happens when you rescue a bear from a dwarf].
All jokes aside by freeing the bears, the girls get a chance for their own
[[happily ever after]].
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(enchant: "Snow White", (text-colour: fuchsia) + (text-style:'bold'))But as it should be sometimes, with the ordinary girl saving the prince.
[[And so it ends]]. Eventually the bear gets so fed up with Snow White's incessant talking, he moves closer as if listening only to open his mouth around her head.
So wrapped up in thought Snow White doesn't realize that this is [[THE END]] for her. So much for befriending a woodland creature and inviting it to sing with her...
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(enchant: "Snow White", (text-colour: fuchsia) + (text-style:'bold'))Cowering in fear the dwarf begins to shrivel. He never expected a girl to challenge him so aggressively.
His mistake...
The shovel comes down as if in slow motion, thwacking the dwarf on the head. All of the sudden, the stone cracks and [[dissintigrates]] into dust swirling around Snow White and Rose Red like a fresh snow.
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(enchant: "Snow White", (text-colour: fuchsia) + (text-style:'bold'))"Oh darn. You girl's got that one. (link-reveal: "But there's no way you can get a second...")[
(link-reveal: "I am always in front of you, and never behind you. What am I?") [
[[Your Nose]]
or
[[The Future]]
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(enchant: "or", (text-style: "bold"))"Well, well, well I knew you girls could never solve my riddles.Isn't that too bad. I guess there's no saving the bear".
"But to make sure you girl's never come for me again, [[I must do to you what I did to these despicable bears]]"
]"Well didn't you ladies think you were tricky. But, I knew it was only beginners luck. Nobody that looks like you could ever outsmart me."
Snow White and Rose Red stood speechless.
"To make sure you never come back to challenge me again, though I doubt you will, [[I must do to you what I did to these despicable bears]]."
(enchant: "Rose Red", (text-colour: red) + (text-style:'bold'))
(enchant: "Snow White", (text-colour: fuchsia) + (text-style:'bold'))"Two in a row, that's IMPOSSIBLE, not even the smartest man in the village could outsmart me twice".
"Well isn't that too bad" Snow White retorted [[with an edge even her sister didn't expect]].
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(enchant: "Snow White", (text-colour: fuchsia) + (text-style:'bold'))Feeling a freezing sensation from within their hearts, the sisters stood helpless while their once beautiful figures became immemorialized in stone."
(text-style: "emboss") [Never to move from the forest again.]
The end. THE END
(enchant: "THE END", (text-style:'bold')Nearly distracted from her task at hand, Rose Red snapped back into action, moved by the strength of her voice she made it behind the dwarf.
From, there she snatched his beard, and fought his flailing limbs fighting to be freed.
Snow White pulled down the nearest branch, and tied the dwarf's beard to the tree leaving him hanging there like a [[piñata]].
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(enchant: "flailing", (text-style: "shudder"))(link-reveal: "One...")[
(link-reveal: "Two...")[
(link-reveal: "Three...")[
(link-reveal: "THWACK")[
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The dwarf cracks into a million little pieces, as the stone blocking the bear's den [[dissintigrates]].
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(enchant: "dissintigrates", (text-style:'fade-in-out'))In typical Snow White fashion, she welcomes the bear into the house without question, and asks where the bear came from while reaching for a blanket big enough to cover even a fraction of the creature.
Bombarding him with questions, the bear barely gets in a word, before finally saying "help..."
Should Snow White respond to the bears plea for [[help...]] OR should she continue to talk without [[stop]]?
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