Of Roses and Thorns

In a forest both young and old, there is a cottage surrounded by flowers. In this cottage is the Hermit. She spends her days with only a cat for company as she guards a glass coffin. Years have passed and few remember she dwells in the woods. Those who do, keep their distance and warn others too; the forest is not safe and neither is the Hermit, a witch who cursed a princess to an eternal sleep.

Now comes a prince, with a face made of angles steep, and astride a grey steed. He is on his own mission to wake the princess who sleeps in the glass coffin. It is classic tale, it would seem. He will find the princess, defeat the wicked Hermit, and restore peace and beauty to his kingdom and the princess'. And this would be . . . if everything was as it seemed.

A retelling of Snow White and Sleeping Beauty.