The little mermaid drew aside the purple curtains of the pavilion, where laid the bride and bridegroom; bending over them, she kissed the Prince’s forehead, and then glancing at the sky, she saw that the dawning light became every moment brighter. The Prince’s lips murmured the name of his bride- he was dreaming of her and her only, while the fatal penknife trembled in the hand of the unhappy mermaid. All at once she threw far out into the sea that instrument of death; the waves rose like bright blazing flames around, and the water where it fell seemed tinged with blood. With eyes fast becoming dim and fixed, she looked once more at her beloved Prince, then plunged from the ship into the sea, and felt her body slowly but surely dissolving into foam.
The little mermaid stretched out her transparent arms to the sun, and, for the first time, tears moistened her eyes.
And now again all were awake and rejoicing on the ship. She saw the Prince, with his pretty bride. They had missed her; they looked sorrowfully down into the foamy waters, as if they knew she had plunged into the sea. Unseen she kissed the bridegroom’s forehead, smiled upon him, and then, with the rest of the children of air, soared high above the rosy cloud which was sailing so peacefully over the ship. - extract from 'The Little Mermaid' by Hans Christian Anderson
These drawings were partly inspired by this fairytale- K xx
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