But Ben’s private adventures are soon overwhelmed by a mortal threat facing the castle and indeed the entire country. So begins her secret education in the magical arts: mastering an obstinate flying broomstick, furtively emptying the castle pantries, setting her hair on fire. With her parents lost to unknown assassins, Princess Ben ends up under the thumb of the conniving Queen Sophia, who is intent on marrying her off to the first available “specimen of imbecilic manhood.” Starved and miserable, locked in the castle’s highest tower, Ben stumbles upon a mysterious enchanted room. But the gown had the simple elegance for which Queen Sophia's dressmaker so renowned, and what I lacked in beauty, I would simply have to earn with charm.īenevolence is not your typical princess and Princess Ben is certainly not your typical fairy tale. My bodice did not plunge as dramatically as some, and no man-no man I would ever want to meet surely-could fit his hands around my waist. My gown suited me as well as I could ever hope thought I could not but envy the young ladies who would attract the honest compliments of the night.
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