Issue 4
Annabelle tells the story of when she was owned by Snow White.
It begins with Snow White's stepmother, who is an ugly, wicked woman. The stepmother is told by her enchanted mirror that beauty is reflected by the heart: Snow White is beautiful because her heart is pure while the stepmother's heart is full of hate. The stepmother refuses to believe that, but the mirror tries to strangle her with a dark hand until she does. The stepmother summons Snow White and sends her to see her aunt the next day. Traveling with Snow is servant named Sylas. When Snow White is distracted picking flowers, Sylas cuts out her heart and leaves her in the woods for dead. With the help of the magic mirror, the stepmother removes her own heart and replaces it with Snow's. With her new heart, the stepmother becomes incredibly beautiful. She locks her old heart up in a box. That night, a heartless Snow White travels to a cottage in the woods where animals assist her and give her apples. Snow takes one of the apples and puts it in the hole in her chest where the heart ought to be before standing in the stepmother's bedroom. The stepmother awakens and assumes it to be a dream until she finds the bloody apple in her room. Frightened, she orders the servants to remove it. It is thrown into the fire. Later, the stepmother is made a pie for tea time, which she eats, only to find a bloody Annabelle under her napkin. Now in a panic, the stepmother has tea in the courtyard. Investigating a strange sight, she finds Sylas's bloody body in the tree. She passes out and wakes up in her room, where she tries to tell the servants about Snow White's murderous actions. Annabelle once more appears in the stepmother's room, frightening her further. The servants give the stepmother something to make her sleep. While she sleeps, Snow White enters her stepmother's room. Snow nearly puts her stepmother's heart into her chest, but is warned in time by Annabelle and instead throws it into the fireplace. Annabelle then directs Snow White to her stepmother and Snow rips out her heart and replaces it, letting her recover. Snow White, beautiful and healthy once more, leaves with Annabelle and the now-ugly stepmother is dragged into the enchanted mirror, greeted as its "bride".
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