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Small bones. Delicate ones. Ribs like birdcages, knuckles like pearls, skulls no larger than her fist. They had been arranged in spirals on the dirt floor, and in the center of the spiral lay a mirror—not of glass, but of polished obsidian. The scrying mirror.

“What did she show you?” he asked.

Claudia had not married for love or land. She had married for hearts —specifically, the hearts of maidens. She had made a pact with something old and hungry that lived in the roots of the manor. In exchange for the life-essence of young women (harvested through a ritual that involved the bone brush, the obsidian mirror, and a silver needle), Claudia would remain untouched by age. Snow White A Tale Of Terror

“It’s done,” Lilia said.

“They call us the Seven,” he said, his voice like gravel sliding downhill. “Seven men who went into the mountain and came out wrong. Too ugly for the village. Too strong to die.” Small bones

Now Claudia ruled. And every morning, she summoned Lilia to her chamber. They had been arranged in spirals on the

And in that mirror, Lilia saw the truth.