- Just here to dance

As much as the rails may appear nowhere to be found in this Cinderella story right now, it is a Cinderella story, and certain beats need to happen. Others need to be subverted. Others still need some manner of allusion to that is neither subversion nor truly happening so that future scholars have something to argue about.

My point is we're all going to get through this part of the story together while remembering how Cinderella ultimately goes (unless I subvert that somehow).

Please note we're still talking the 1697 Cinderella and not the 1812 Brothers Grimm version (and most definitely not the 1819 Brothers Grimm version in which they apparently decided the 1812 version wasn't quite Grimm enough).