Lea171997

Everyone knows the story of Sleeping Beauty. There are different versions of it, too, and all hold a grain of truth. But my story reveals the secrets, hidden in the shadows, left out and forgotten over the years. My name is Deliria. My skin is the pale blue-white of inbred children, my long hair blacker than the darkest night. I looked much like my mother in the face: high cheek bones, a strong nose, slanted golden eyes.  Like a dragon.  I was considered beautiful from my form, but the beauty only went so far. Maleficent never admitted to having a child. I was just as old as the girl she hated so fervently, the maid she hunted. I would neve

 Long ago, there was a childless and wifeless sea-king named Imber, who ruled the oceans with an iron fist and a sharp trident. Just after he had lost a long war against the kingdoms of the winged Sky People and the Land People, as he was traveling in his chariot drawn by large sea horses back to his underwater castle, he found a baby with golden hair and deep blue eyes on the ocean floor surrounded by all sorts of fish. Such a child he had never seen before, possessing radiant beauty even as a baby. A Sea girl found in this way indicated a special life before her, a child of destiny; and so he named her Lucia and deemed her as his own heir t