So this was the town of Sorrow centuries ago? It was a kingdom?
The two royal families were gathering to discuss the possibility of the prince and the princess getting married when they grew up. Loki understood that it was the first time Snow White met Prince Charming. He walked the hallway to its end and peeked through a huge rectangular window. There was a big celebration waiting outside with flowers and balloons and carriages. This was where the kings and the queens were going to go after they had their initial introduction. Many children outside were dressed like Loki. They were an army of children, most of them held their small swords.
So that’s what the woman thought I was? One of those kids?
But why am I a child in this dream? How did that happen? Can she control her dreams?
Loki remembered he’d read in his notebook that a few Demortals had such powers, although it was said to happen rarely.
Suddenly, Loki heard a scream. He darted back to look from behind the banister.
The young prince was lying on the ground, blood seeping out of his neck. His king and queen parents were in shock and Snow White’s parents were trying to persuade them that the prince was going to be all right.
What happened? The poor young prince was going to die.
Zooming in, Loki saw the seven-year-old Snow White staring at the prince with blood trickling from her mouth. Loki gulped when she tilted her head up and stared at him with that cute, scary smile of hers. She was making fun of him, licking her lips as if it was chocolate syrup. Loki held tighter to the banister bars like a scared kid. He was appalled and confused at the same time. Again, she looked so innocent, although she just bit the prince.
“What did you do?” Loki saw the queen slap Snow White on her hands. Loki still couldn’t see the queen or king’s faces from where he was standing, and he didn’t know how to explain who he was if he was discovered.
Look guys, I just came into this dream from the waking world. I’m gonna kill your daughter because she is a badass vampire. It will only take a minute, everything will be fine, and you will live happily ever after. By the way, don’t bother thinking that your life isn’t real and this is just a dream. Happens all the time.
“Tabula!” the queen summoned the giant woman Loki had met before. “Come over here.”
Tabula rushed down the stairs.
“Take Shew with you and clean this mess up,” Loki heard the queen say to Tabula. Shew? Loki thought it was a lovely nickname for a nasty princess. “Postpone the ceremony until I say so,” the queen followed. “No one from the locals outside can know about this, you understand?”
Tabula nodded obediently. She took Snow White by the hand while the King of Sorrow promised the other king and queen he could save their son.
Tabula and Snow White talked in the hallway while Loki hid in one of the rooms, leaving the door slightly ajar.
“What were you thinking, Snow White?” Tabula said to her. “Didn’t we speak about controlling those urges?”
“I couldn’t control myself, and he’s delicious,” Snow White said, holding Tabula’s hand. “So yummy. I want more.”
“You think his blood is delicious?”
“He’s handsome, too,” Snow White said. “I liked biting him. I don’t know why he freaked out. Is he hurt?”
Loki tried not to kick himself in the head with a school bus driving infinity-miles-per-hour when he heard this.
“We’ll see about that,” Tabula patted her gently. “But you can’t bite boys because they look handsome and delicious, Shew.”
“Why?” Snow White stomped her foot.
“One bratty little princess,” Loki mumbled.
Tabula sighed, “It’s not the proper way princesses should behave. You have to be more polite than that because you’re not an average run of the mill street urchin.”
“But I want more, and it’s my birthday. I’d rather not be a princess if it means getting to bite whomever I want.”
“What an awful thing to say. You can’t just bite anyone you like. Do you understand? Now let’s go to the bathing chamber and wash this bloody mess off of you. The whole kingdom is waiting for you to come outside and greet them. You can’t go out looking like this.”
“No!” Snow White said, kicking Tabula in her big legs and running away.
Outrunning the slow Tabula, Snow White came back to Loki whose head was sticking out from behind the door. He didn’t know why he was still in this dream when it was obvious he didn’t have the heart to kill her when she manipulating it. He needed to get back to the waking world and check his notebook to see if there was a way to kill vampires who control their dreams.
Snow White, the young and feisty, pushed Loki inside and entered the room, then closed the door behind her.