Truth

"Sleeping" Beauty

Unlike in the previous stories, the one you think is the victims is the actual victim, but that doesn't make her innocent. I would advise not reading this tale if you are eating.

Let me start with the villain in this story. It's commonly said that she's a fairy, which isn't actually true. She was just a queen who was overly protective of her son, Prince Phillip. To put it simply, she didn't want any women near him.

This tale relates to the last one in another way: Eric. Our victim was his lover, and Phillip was his younger brother. Phillip was comforting the poor Aurora over the loss of his brother and her lover. Unfortunately for Aurora, his mother didn't see it that way. She saw it as the woman who made her son cheat on his wife right before his death getting close to her only other child. Being the overprotective mother she is, she thought up a plan to "save" her son from the woman who didn't care if a man was married or not when she "seduced" him.

She asked Aurora to meet her in the palace garden. Not aware of the queen's maleficence, Aurora agreed. The queen made small talk as they walked through the garden, asking how she was holding up after Eric's death. She didn't show her evil intentions until she got to a specific part of the garden. It was a small maze with the queen's "secret garden" in the center. The queen and the young girl went through the maze and to the center where the girl's heart dropped.

Along the walls around the secret garden we're about ten staffs stuck from the ground, finally giving an answer to why the queen always got new staffs, each of which having a sharp point at the top. Each staff had the head of another person on them. The staffs stuck out of their chins while the other end was stuck into the ground like trophies. Each staff was stained dark red with each person's blood, and poor Aurora was next.

Like many other victims, her ghost stayed and was always beside Phillip, holding her unborn baby—Eric's unborn baby. Phillip was only ever told that she was "sleeping."

While I'm talking about unborn children...