Escape the Labyrinth [Pan's Labyrinth]

My mother and father told me that Careysma was supposed to have an older sister named Ophelia, but she died at the age of five. My parents were heartbroken.

A few years later, I was born. I was a girl too, so they loved me even more.

But whenever my parents spoke of my sister, their faces would always turn sad.

Father said that my sister was beautiful, with skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood, and hair as black as coal. She was as beautiful as Mother.

"Of course, my darling, you're beautiful too," Father said gently.

But not long afterward, war took Father's life, and Mother soon remarried.

My stepfather was a wolfish man, an officer.

I could sense that Mother both depended on and feared him. But I was different. I didn't depend on him, and I wasn't afraid of him.

Theme: Your choices determine your fate