The Seventh Fairy
helper · fairy · the one who plans ahead
The youngest of the seven, who saw what was coming and quietly went and stood behind a curtain.
How we meet them
Getting up from the table in the middle of dinner and leaving, which looks rude and is the most useful thing anybody does all evening.
Personality
Watchful, practical, and thinking about the following morning while everybody else is at dinner.
What they want
To make sure somebody still has something left to give after the damage is done.
How they change
From the youngest guest at the table, to the only one who leaves it, to the person who quietly decides what the next hundred years will be like for everybody in the building.
How they speak
Plainly, and mostly about limits. She is careful to say what she cannot do before she says what she can.
How the story treats them
Nobody notices her leave and nobody thanks her afterwards. The kingdom credits the burning of the spinning wheels, which achieved nothing.
One surprising thing
She cannot undo another fairy's work, and the story is strict about it. She does not cancel the curse. She argues it down, which is a completely different kind of magic.
If they were real today
She would be the one who read the terms and conditions.
Key moments
Behind the curtain
She sees the old fairy look at the ordinary plate, gets up quietly, and goes and stands out of sight so that somebody will still have a gift left when the damage is done.
Not death. Sleep.
She comes out from behind the curtain and says the one thing she is able to say, which is that she cannot undo it and can only make it smaller.
Even her little dog
She arrives in an hour by chariot and puts the entire household to sleep exactly as it stands, down to the dogs and the fire, so the princess will not wake alone among strangers.
Who they know
The Old Fairyrival
The two of them never argue, and the entire plot is the argument between them.
The Princessguardian
She is the only person in the story who thinks about what waking up would actually be like.
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