Actually, even worse. She kept her legs, and married the prince and lived a long life, and every step on those legs for the rest of her life was like walking on knives and broken glass.
There are other versions where she dies. Charles de Lint wrote a version where the ‘prince’ is a vacillating twit, and by the time he decides that he really does love her, it's too late and she has dissolved into a puddle and died.
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Date: 2009-02-21 09:38 pm (UTC)There are other versions where she dies. Charles de Lint wrote a version where the ‘prince’ is a vacillating twit, and by the time he decides that he really does love her, it's too late and she has dissolved into a puddle and died.