Finding Snow White terrified in the woods was a girl older than her by two years. It was that girl's sixteenth birthday.

The elder bent down to Snow White. "Are you alright? You look so frightened!"

Snow White looked up to the girl, whom had long blonde hair and violet eyes. "I'm Snow White! I'm terribly lost! My stepmother, the Queen of my kingdom, had tried to kill me!"

The blonde's eyes appeared pitiful as she pulled Snow White up. "My aunts know a cottage of seven dwarfs. Perhaps they will take you in."

Snow White clapped her hands in glee. "Thank you so kindly! I am to marry a prince whom I have fallen in love with. Please tell me your name, so that one day I may repay you this kindness!"

The sixteen year old, though not supposed to tell her name to strangers, felt she could not disappoint the younger girl whom was so innocent. "My name is Briar Rose."


Queen Grimhilde stood in front of her mirror, believing Snow White to be dead, and asked, "Mirror mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all."

Her mirror replied with a shocking answer.

"It is no longer Snow White who lives whom is the fairest in your kingdom. For in a woodcutters cottage just on the edge of your kingdom, deep in the forest, there is a maiden who has surpassed the beauty of both you and Snow White. With hair as gold as sunshine, and lips that shame the red, red rose, cursed by the fairy Maleficent, dwells young Briar Rose. Though she is hidden from her curse in that alias, in truth the Princess Aurora."