"Many of these stories don't end well, and we're meant to finish them...?" He placed the last book on the pile and sat back. The Little Mermaid, of course, the girl who turned to seafoam in her own despair.

Rei bit back a mention that he was speaking with the Medusa Aspect. Was she not beheaded in her own tale as an act of glory?

"Can't we change them? Make them better? I... I suppose I could have someone declare something as ridiculous as eternal love for me, but I can't agree to just die. Odette should have sought another way."