Princess Cromwell and Her Six Brothers
Just as she followed the bloodstains and rounded an ancient tree that would have taken several people to encircle, the ground beneath her suddenly gave way.
"This is bad!" Alarm bells blared in her mind, but her body was still a step too slow.
What she had stepped on was a trap carefully concealed beneath rotting leaves and weeds. Below was not solid ground but a bottomless black pit. Both sides of the pit walls were densely lined with inverted spikes that gleamed with a cold, ghostly blue light, their tips clearly coated with deadly poison.
The sensation of weightlessness instantly swept over her. Her body plunged downward, icy wind slashing painfully across her cheeks. The old wounds on he