Up next is the story of a girl who was actually born a princess; this one is based off of The Sleeping Beauty. The infant princess Sonora is given gifts by seven fairies who each try to outdo the others, when an eighth fairy bursts in, livid at being forgotten. She curses the baby to eventually prick her finger and die.
Of course we all know this part: the last of the original fairies has yet to give her gift, so she tweaks the curse so that instead of death, Sonora and the entire castle will sleep for a hundred years, woken when a prince kisses Sonora. Still unwilling to take chances, the king and queen order not just spindles, but just about everything sharp in the castle, to be locked away in a highly secure shed.
But Sonora doesn't want to just sit back and wait for the curse to find her. One of her fairy gifts was that she was ten times as smart as anyone else. So as a toddler, she goes to the shed, picks all the locks, and relocates a spindle back to her nursery. She determined to prick herself at the best possible moment.
Unfortunately, her smartness didn't go over great with everyone - ahem, well, anyone, really. She learned and learned and learned, and she came up with ideas to do things in better and more efficient ways. She even came up with a theory to grow skinless potatoes, "which would save hours of peeling!"
But people are stuck in their ways, and they didn't want some little brat telling them how to do their jobs. Even her parents were unresponsive to Sonora's attempts to help.
You know what? I'm going to end it here. What happens to lead up to her pricking herself? Was it truly the best possible moment? What does she do in the meantime? What's the prince like that will supposedly wake her and her castle? What drives him to make that attempt?
Get the book and find out. ;)
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