To Both Sanity and Madness

She had lost her, the queen thought, both to madness and to sanity, to both life and to herself.

When only some weeks after her return to the palace Snow White took a bottle of arsenic in her shaky hands and swallowed it with no thoughts -or mind- of the consequences, the queen was forced to recognize that she had made the wrong decision, that she had chosen wrongly. That she had lost her daughter.

Because sometimes, sometimes, oblivion really was all that a broken heart could handle.