- 'Chapter the Last'
Blood and fire rained from the sky, while on the ground the bodies of the dead and dying we used as cover and camouflage for those still fighting.
When Cinders arrived, she knew from the colour of her ring that her love was near. Joining up with the last of Snow’s troops, later remembered as the Noble Twenty Three – a lie, but a pretty one – they descended into the Undercity, to seek the throne room of the king.
What they found were the Three Little Pigs. The battle was brief, with rebels falling like chaff before their black iron foes, and then Snow saw Rose, still in the glass life-pod she’d been in for thirty years, and shattered it with a single shot. Rose opened her eyes and her first sight in thirty years was her sister. Falling lifeless to the floor with a bullet in her heart.
Nothing could contain Rose’ rage as she snapped, shattered and broke the Three Little Pigs, leaving them nothing but empty, hollowed out husks. And then she saw Cinders. For one beautiful moment, they embraced. And then King Cole shot Rose in the back.
- 'Snow's Flight'
When the soldiers seized Rose, they killed everyone at the wedding. There were only two survivors. The first was Snow, who managed to crawl to safety, badly injured, though she lost much of herself in the process.
No longer safe on New Constantinople, she gathered what allies she could find – warriors, nobles, diplomats – and they fled towards the Periphery on the SS Anderson. But they were betrayed. A bomb hidden in their food shipment, in a crate of apples, detonated, leaving the ship floating in space. Snow called the crew together.
SNOW
Dr Lorenzo, what’s our status?
LORENZO
- Cinders' Song
When I was a little girl, my mother always told me
“Someday your prince will come, my love”
But as I grew, I knew it was a princess who would hold me.
I looked to the stars for you, my love.
Oh my love, as the cannons were a-blazing
I looked to the stars for you, my love
Oh my love, as our cities you were razing
- Old King Cole
Old King Cole was a brutal soul, and a bloody old soul had he
He called for his mead and his gun so cold, and he called for his little pigs three
Now every piggy had a razor blade and sharpened it with glee
Oh, far and near, they all learn fear from King Cole and his little pigs three
CHORUS
Factories churn, bodies burn,
Stars are shining bright.