Chapter 10
Happily Ever After
Joy fills the land as the curse is lifted. Prince Linden and Princess Aurelia, their destinies intertwined, are married days later. They rule with kindness and live a long, happy life together.
The dawn bloomed over the kingdom, not with the usual symphony of birdsong and the bustle of awakening villagers, but with a hushed, almost reverent stillness. The spell, a silken shroud woven by the wicked sorceress, had been torn asunder. Color seeped back into the world like a blush returning to a pale cheek. The very air seemed to exhale, releasing the pent-up breath of a hundred years.
In the highest tower, where the silence had been deepest, a sigh, soft as a butterfly’s wing, stirred the dust motes dancing in the solitary sunbeam. Princess Aurelia’s eyelids fluttered, revealing irises the color of a summer sky, now clearing from the haze of enchanted slumber. The faint prick on her finger, the tiny, almost forgotten sting, had been the key, the moment the sorceress’s cruel magic had truly taken root. But now, as her senses returned, it was not the phantom pain that occupied her thoughts, but the gentle warmth that had broken the spell.
Her gaze drifted, taking in the opulent chamber, now bathed in the soft, golden light of morning. It was familiar, yet it felt… new. And then she saw him. A young man, his features etched with a relief so profound it seemed to have smoothed away the very lines of worry from his brow. His eyes, the color of a deep forest, held a tenderness that made Aurelia’s heart beat a little faster, a rhythm that had been dormant for so long. He was kneeling beside her, his hand still resting lightly on hers, as if to ensure she was truly real, truly awake.
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