Then she flew back to the center and made a strange bowing motion, keeping her tiny feet daintily together and putting her arms out gracefully like a swan. First, she moved to specific points in the air around her, perhaps north, south, east, and west, twirling a little at each stop. A febrile, glowing crisscross of threads on a rotten log her cousin had once shown her out in the country: fox fire, magical mushrooms.Īnd here it was, for real! Tinker Bell was performing what appeared to be a slow and majestic dance. The sparkling leaded glass windows of a sweets shop on winter afternoons when dusk came at four. Candles at Christmas, fireflies in the park, flickering lamps in teahouses.
Well, like it was touched by fairies, Wendy thought with a smile.Īll her life she had looked for fairies in more mundane places, experiencing a rush of hope and warmth whenever a scene even palely imitated the one before here now. Her light glowed warmly off the leaves below, the droplets seeping off their thick veins, the sweet sap running down the trunks of the trees. Before she can reach her happy ending, Rapunzel learns that there is far more to her story, and her magical hair, and her future than she ever knew.“Tinker Bell, meanwhile, was drifting with purpose up to the highest leafy branches of the jungle. When she finally decides to leave the only home she's ever known-to see the floating lights that appear on her birthday-she gets caught up in an unexpected adventure with two thieves: a would-be outlaw named Gina, and Flynn Rider, a rogue on the run. For the safety of the kingdom, Rapunzel is locked away in a tower and put under the care of the powerful goodwife, Mother Gothel.įor eighteen years Rapunzel stays imprisoned in her tower, knowing she must protect everyone from her magical hair. But with her mysterious hair comes dangerous magical powers: the power to hurt, not heal. This shimmering flower heals the queen and she delivers a healthy baby girl?with hair as silver and gray as the moon.
but someone mistakenly picks the blossom of the Moondrop instead. The 12th installment in the New York Times best-selling series asks: What if Rapunzel's mother drank a potion from the wrong flower?ĭesperate to save the life of their queen and her unborn child, the good citizens of the kingdom comb the land for the all-healing Sundrop flower to cure her.
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