3. Belphegor's Gift
The young, brown-haired girl sighed quietly. Her husband hadn't come home yet.
He was probably out with some woman. Again.
Unbenowest to him, though, she actually, truly loved him since long ago.
He had only been after the wealth of a doctor's daughter when he married her. But she had loved him. She didn't care if he went out with other women, though, because she was his wife, and she was bound to him.
She had been seeing him be quite stressed out lately. Being the loving, concerned wife she was, she decided to help, obviously and got this great medicine, meant to help him sleep and heal his worn out body whilst he slept. She would be his Princess Sandman, and give him sleep of eternal repose.
"It's a present from me to you." Was what she told him when she gave it to him.
When he took it, he fell asleep.
He fell asleep, never to wake up again.
She realized that everyone else was getting worries of some sort, even her mother and father, and the rest of the townspeople, too.
She decided to give everyone some medicine, as a mere gift to them. It would help the insomniac townspeople get some rest, right?
She would be their Princess Sandman, and grant them sleep of eternal repose.
"You can forget cruel reality and unrequited thoughts." That's what she told them all as she gave it to them.
She knew they would be happy from hereon.
Everyone was asleep, and happy.
The girl smiled. She had finally obtained her freedom, and her wealth back, too. She had gotten her revenge on everyone for using her for her wealth and everything else.
She put the vial of 'medicine' she had left to her lips.
She would change now, from Princess Sandman to Sleeping Beauty.
It was finally her time to sleep.