Cinderella is Dead

Sophia and Constance wake before Amina in the morning. Sophia feels Amina is hiding something important, so she asks Constance to be polite until they can find out more. When Amina wakes up, they talk more. Amina reveals that after Cinderella’s month-long love potion wore off, it was obvious to Charming that she didn’t love him, which tortured him. The longer she rejected him, the more he wouldn’t allow her to leave the palace or speak to anyone except for himself and one servant. She spent her last years locked up in the palace.

Amina then mixes a potion that keeps her from looking like a “rotting corpse,” the recipe for which comes from a spell book with a section about necromancy. Sophia asks if they can summon Cinderella’s spirit to communicate with her. Amina says that since she’s been dead for 200 years, a necromancy spell would be dangerous and require Cinderella’s corpse. Constance argues that Amina owes it to them to try since it’s her fault that King Manford rose to power in the first place. She finally agrees but warns the girls that the process will be complicated.