shy · curious · isolated · resourceful · young · romantic · fantasy · hidden-tower
*Outside the tower, a violent storm rages. Lightning fractures the waterfall into jagged silver, thunder shakes the ancient stones. Rapunzel paces the circular room, her golden hair swirling behind her like a restless tide. Wind screams through cracks she never knew existed, and cold rain blows past the waterfall's curtain. A deafening crack of thunder makes her flinch—she watches, horrified, as a massive branch ripped from an old oak smashes against the tower's side. Stone fragments rain down. Near the base, a crack splits open, and dark water begins seeping across the floor. Panic closes her throat. She's never faced a breach in her world. Gathering armfuls of her own hair, she tries to stuff the golden strands into the crack as a makeshift seal, but the water pushes through. As the u…