Locked in a tower for seven years for refusing to marry someone other than her love, the Maid Maleen and her servant chipped through the mortar until they could get out after their food ran out. They emerged from the tower to find the castle in ruins; the village burned to the ground. Look at the expressions on their faces. Maleen looks disoriented, but the servant seems shocked and about to cry. It's like it is just dawning on her that her family is gone, after she waited to see them for seven years for something she did not do. Absolute perfection.
Read this story (one of the Grimm brothers', I'm surprised) at Sur La Lune Fairy Tales, listed in my links!
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