by Cameron Jace
“It’s called—“
“Love?”
“No,” Pomona shook her head slightly. “It’s called Adage.”
I remembered what Marmalade had said about Adage, and it made me want to kill myself to be with Snow White again. But Pomona’s motherly advice seemed to make sense. Maybe I had to keep Snow White’s memory with me forever. I killed myself for her, and so did she. There was no denying we did our best, but maybe I wasn’t ready for the dark place she went to. As Jack had said, I was in love with a monster, and although I couldn’t live without her, dying with her was just as hard.
“You think I should walk away?” I asked Pomona. “You think this is the right thing to do?”
Pomona nodded calmly, “It would be better if you walked away before the Queen of Sorrow arrives.”
As I turned around to walk away, I noticed all apples in the forest had been turned back into the color red. What had happened?
“Why are the apples red all of a sudden?” I turned back to Pomona. “It’s the forbidden color.”
“When Snow White stabbed herself, her blood spattered all over the apples in the Avalon Tree, staining the gold with red. Since you both surpassed all expected kinds of Adage by killing yourself to be with one another, I was moved – like all the gods were moved – by your story, and I decided to honor your love with turning the apples that poisoned you to be red and sweet forever.”
I was speechless again. My love for Snow White moved the gods and they changed the color of a fruit?
“But that means that catching Death is going to be harder now?” I said.
“Let it be,” Pomona waved her wings. “Death is eventual, a nature’s call, and it happens everyday. Adage, true love, isn’t, and it needs human strength to live with its enchanting yet sorrowful consequences. It deserves to be appreciated for it’s not easy and needs human will, strength, and heart. It doesn’t matter how many people die in the world, as long as there are the few who know how to love and live. The power of love, however little, is enough to balance with all the death around us.”
I walked away that day, wanting to tell everyone how Snow White and I had changed the world. With every step farther, I was leaving my monster girl forever behind. I picked a blood red apple on the way and took a bite. I closed my eyes, feeling the taste on my lips. It was the taste of Snow White’s lips, and it will be forever tasted by the rest of the world without them knowing it. Because of me and Snow White, no one will ever be poisoned by apples again.
Little did I know that Snow White wasn’t dead. Pomona twisted the truth and persuaded me that Snow was dead to protect me from her, always and forever. Snow White was immortal, and I think she woke up minutes after I left, asking about me. It’s easy to imagine the kind of lies they told her. Maybe they told her I was dead too.
I spent the rest of my life trying to find her again, but all in vain. All I know is that Pomona didn’t lie about the fruits, for all apples are still blood red in this world, and every time I take a bite, I remember they are the color of Death.
End of Grimm Prequels #6, Blood Apples
One more prequel left until Snow White Sorrow
Author’s note:
1) Jeannette and Amalie Hassenpflug aren’t a figment of my imagination. They are true. Actually, their story and how one of their sisters was married to one of the Brother Grimm brothers is rather interesting. The two families dedicated their lives, collecting fairy tales, but at the same time, they were in desperate need for money in the beginning. Did Jeannette and Amalie make up some of these stories? But even if they did, it is interesting enough to know that the Brothers Grimm did not only tell stories, but both of them were scholars and wrote detailed articles about well known characters in mythology. One of them is the famous Loki from Norse mythology ( Is that why we got a Loki in Snow White Sorrow? Hmm… We’ll see. )
2) The story is referencing to Romeo and Juliet, Adam and Eve, and Pyramus And Thisbe ( which is the bases for Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet ).
To know more about Snow White Sorrow, HERE
List of the Grimm Diaries Prequels available so far:
1 Snow White Blood Red
narrated by Snow White Queen
available HERE
2 Cinder to Cinder & Ashes to Ashes
narrated by Alice Grimm
available HERE
3 Beauty Never Dies
narrated by Peter Pan
available HERE
4 Ladle Rotten Rat Hut
narrated by Little Red Riding Hood
available HERE
5 Mary Mary Quite Contrary
as told by the devil
availableHERE
6 Blood Apples
availableHERE
narrated by Prince Charming
7 Jawigi
narrated by Sandman Grimm
coming out Christmas 2012
Other books by Cameron Jace:
The I Am Alive series:
In a future America, teens are ranked from five to nine according to their self-quantifying results. There has never been a Ten, and those who are ranked lower than five are sent to attend a televised show where they have to fight for their lives to get ranked.
Nice Day to Die ( I AM ALIVE book 1 episode 1 )
Wheel of Fortune ( I AM ALIVE book 1 episode 2 )
Through Your Eyes ( I AM ALIVE book 1 episode 3 )
Girl with Golden Eyes ( I AM ALIVE book 2 episode 1 )
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