Summary

Alice wakes up to the blue eyes of her real mother and lives out the fairy tale that Finch told her earlier in the novel. However, she has no memories of her life on Earth or her goal to find Ella. She experiences every painful and sudden growth spurt, and every hateful remark from her family. She tells the reader she felt like she had done it all before, but her mind is only clear when she stops thinking. She torments her siblings and defies her mother. She becomes fascinated with ice before eventually growing into a woman. After demanding her suitors bring her ice from a far away cave, Alice is put into the service of two brothers who accomplished the task. As they take her away, she murders the first brother and prepares to be tied up by the second. However, he...