Finished reading: Little Mermaid, In Passing by Angela Slatter in Grimdark #40 📓📚
To its inspiration material as Wicked to Wizard of Oz. With a dash of Shelley.
the price for something you want desperately, but should not have, is always red.
greedy as a mortal, coveting what I’ve not got whilst forgetting what I do have.
Anything you don’t value, don’t use, don’t exercise, will desert you.
I have become a concentration of prices paid, of deals done, of treasures left behind.
Never once do they think what the other might want. That love, if it were true, if it were right, would find its own way.