Golden

<p class=ql-align-center><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Little Mermaid meets Loki in this dark twisted retelling that's anything but a Fairy Tale. In this world foes look like friends the heroes are deliciously wicked and you'll never see the end coming.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Ten years ago I 'died' and it was the best thing that ever happened to me.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I should have known it wouldn't last.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Once my family thought I was dead I was finally free to live.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Until the day my brother walks into my tiny bookshop.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>No one leaves the Grayling pack and gets away with it.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>They drag me back but not for the reason I believe.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>My mother has made an enemy of a powerful witch</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>and I am to take the punishment meant for her.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Death would have been kinder.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This curse? What I am now?</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>It's so much worse than I could have imagined.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>She didn't just cut me off from my wolf or even simply kill me. She made me a golden retriever and sent me to a shelter.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I'm ready to die in truth now I'm hoping for it even.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>And then my mate walks in...but how am I supposed to convince him I'm the strong partner he needs to help him stop the end of the world when I can't stop wagging my freaking tail?</span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>