Princess Cromwell and Her Six Brothers
At last, she straightened her slightly trembling back, opened her mouth, and with all the strength in her body, shouted toward the empty mountains and forests, toward the massive wall before her: "Carl, where are you!"
Again and again, hoarse and piercing, yet carrying the tenderness and obsession of a final, all-or-nothing resolve, her voice echoed through the silent forest, crashed against the ancient temple walls, and rebounded in overlapping reverberations, repeating that name carved into her very bones and blood.