God I love your writing. "Armani covering up the dead inside him." "...the sort where parents leave their ugly kid in the forest to be eaten by an evil witch so the pretty one can afford a better gown for the ball. It was the kind where a woman wearing a garbage bag turns out to be a good witch with a lot of really shitty news and one tiny glimmer of hope."

This is so gorgeously bleak. I can't wait to see what happens next...