Fourteen-year-old Ana and her sixteen-year-old brother, Sam, are lost in the woods, cold, tired, and hungry. Their only hope is an old train station in the woods. When a train stops at the station, they are sure they are saved. The train seems familiar, like something from a story their Grandmother used to tell them, but the train isn't quite what it was in Gran's story. This story is an entry in the Open Novella Contest 2022. The prompt was "When Grandma told them about the train that comes once a year to take children to the land of dreams, the siblings thought it was just a silly old legend. But then, they heard a steam whistle in the middle of the night." I'm taking that idea but changing it pretty drastically. There's a grandmother, and siblings, and a train but that's about it. **Trigger warning- the story includes an attack of a sexual nature. The attack is not graphic.**

As princess of Turline, Sillia's first duty is to her kingdom. When Turline falls under attack she willingly gives herself to the terrifying Wild King in order to assure his help, but has she lost her chance at happily ever after? The Wild King is a fairytale in the style of East of the Sun West of the Moon, Cupid and Psyche, and Beauty and the Beast. **This story is now published in its entirety!*** **This story was submitted to the 2022 Watty's!** 5-5-22 For consistency, I went through and changed all the chapter titles to numbers. The first five had been spelled out.