“Jill.” Jack fell to his knees. “What have I done?”
The children’s necks all craned up, watching the night sky in silence. It was full of stars, and Jill was up there somewhere.
“Shouldn’t she fall, now that she’d detached from the spindle?” a child asked.
“No,” another said. “It’s the thread that floats. The spindle is just to locate it on the ground.”
“So she will keep floating forever?” a third asked.
“Looks like it,” a fourth speculated.
That was when I arrived. Jack’s stare at me was blank, devoid of anything. It was like he’d stopped feeling from that day on.
“How did this happen?” He stared at his hands that had attached spindle. “Jill told me you said we were both special.”
“You are,” I said.
“But she is gone, Grandmother Madly.” He pointed up at the sky full of stars.
“She’s not gone, Jack,” I said. “She is just up there.”
“She will die up there,” he said.
“I’m not sure about that. Remember when I told you about the universe having its ways and own plans with our fates? Remember when I told you I never knew what the spindle was for?”
“Yes?” He grimaced, not welcoming my conversation.
“One thing I haven’t told you,” I said. “That if it so happens that the thread is cut, whatever, whoever is attached to it, turns into a…”
“Turns into what?” Jack stood up.
“Calm down,” I said. “You have to know the universe has a plan…”
“Turns into what?” Jack discarded my words.
This time I had to answer him. I had to tell him about what would have a great influence on the fate of Lost Seven later on. I said. “Turns into a star.”
End of Diary
MY NOTES
Written by the Beast
I loved Spindle, Spindle Little Star. I loved meeting Jack again – and Robin Hood!
And I’m so ready to know more about Jill. Who’d would have thought she is the Star?
I sit down to contemplate everything I’ve read. So many questions. So many that things don’t make sense sometimes. But I’m drawn to the stories in a way I’ve never been to anything before. I feel like every story has more to it than I’ve comprehended. That there are clues to the coming answers, thrown left and right. It’s just me who can’t interpret them.
Before I go to the next shelf of prequel, I’m going to leave the library and sit beside the nearest window tonight.
Why? I’m going to wish upon a star.
What kind of wish? That Beauty comes back for me. We can work this out. I’m learning my lesson. Things must be loved before they are lovely. I will be there for her. Grant her every wish, even if it will demand that I still play my part as a Beast and that she’d despise me and hate me.
I’m okay with that. Because when you’re in love you can’t hate anymore, even if you’re the Beast himself.
Then, after I wish upon that star, I will make a list of the possible Lost Sevens. I know about five or six now. I find it ironic that the one I don’t know anything about is probably me.
The Beast, who once was Beauty.
THANK YOU
There aren’t enough words to express my gratitude. Writing this series in particular is such a joy. I write it with such ease I can’t make sense of, and it blesses me with hours of researching and collecting older fairy tale books, which is a great obsession of mine.
The following set of prequels should be on its way before the end of the year. I’ve written a few. One of them is called the Singing Bone, which I really like.
On a side note, I’ve created a Pinterest page for the Grimm Prequels where you will find many pictures of historical places visited soon. For now, you can download or pin every Grimm Prequel cover ever released, the ones in this boxset, plus brand new covers for older prequels.
You can find the Pinterest Page HERE
Stay fabulous,
Cameron
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
The part that matters:
Cameron Jace is a Storykiller. He kills older stories, resurrects them into larger than life tales, and then weaves them into facts & fiction. An obsessive collector of out-of-print books with a fascination with folklore and those who wrote it. He wonders if it’s possible to track back to the first story ever told.
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Cameron is the bestselling author of the Grimm Diaries series and the Insanity series. Three of his books made Amazon's Top 100 Customer Favorites books for 2013. He is a graduate of the College of Architecture, a musician, but prefers building fortresses of imagination over a house. Cameron lives in California with his girlfriend. He loves to hear from you:
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OTHER BOOKS
BY CAMERON JACE
The Grimm Diaries Main Series
Snow White Sorrow (Book 1)
Cinderella Dressed in Ashes (Book 2)
Blood, Milk & Chocolate (Book3)
Blood, Milk & Chocolate 2 (Book 4)
Insanity Series (Mad in Wonderland)
Insanity
Figment
Circus
Hookah
Wonder
Checkmate
Family
I Am Alive Series
I Am Alive (Book 1)
Stand Alones
Pentimento (Book 1)