Very nice! I was waiting for a dragon rider story to appear, and I like how you took the fairy tales back to their deeper, darker roots.

This line is a bit nebulous though:
“The rock shuddered with a tremendous impact that drove Aurora to her hands and knees and the things to the ground below.”

I’m not sure what the ‘things’ are, or why they are tumbling to the ground below.

The things are the ‘fairy tales’ that are climbing up the rock after Aurora. I may have enough characters to make that clearer…