In order to know how someone is (or their character) you must put them in power. if you give someone power it is easier to see what their motive is.
What suggests the origins of "Cinderella, The Legend" is the fact that she had tiny feet what was considered of erotic significance in the Orient (ancient times). Hence, it could have been originated in Orient.
Anyway, her theory is uncertain because Cinderella, due to its popularity among boys and girs, is the fairy tale that has at least 345 documented variants and many more unrecorded versions.
I THINK, that it might be the middle one, " Each of the character finds a way to connect to the garden.
The lost era is when you loose a era jk but it is the darkest era in the history
