Engagements, successions—none of that matters anymore. I have realized that being true to myself is more important than anything else right now.

So, I will leave it all behind. It is unfilial, but I am abandoning my family, the fiancé whose face I have never seen, and even these glass slippers tailored like magic.

The clock strikes twelve, and soon the castle will surely be in an uproar.

Just for now, I will run out barefoot without even a gown, racing across the cold night beach.

"Where are you going, Princess?"