A Fairy Tale

Okay children, huddle up near the fire, put your little feet into the quilt, Nana Meghna is going to tell you all a story. It’s a fairy tale..

Not so long ago, in a land not so far away, stayed a young princess. She pined for a lovely prince, bravest and truest of them all. And so, 24 years went by like a spring afternoon spent in the garden.

In the kingdom where she lived, was a great big messenger service. So, our princess forlorn, decided to join the “Royal Kings Messenger Service”, and became a “good news giving messenger”. Her task was to travel door to door, window to window, and even dungeons to dungeons, giving the people good messages, from loved ones and the like. Her work took her to exotic lands, but none of these lands could provide what the princess truly desired. Then one fine day, the chariot the princess used for delivering the messages “The good messenger chariot” had a beautiful new member. He was the most handsomest prince she had laid eyes on. So bright with courage, and unforeseen chivalry, a disarming smile and the earnestest of desires, it wasn’t long before the princess fell head over heels for her “Prince charming”. He too returned her favors, but only thru his eyes, for he was a nobleman, and a noble prince would never take advantage of a lady. And for she was a lady, she could never confide in him the feeling she so possessed for him. And so, while they were in the chariot, they never took their eyes off each other, but never spoke either.

One day, finally the prince spoke. He said that he was going to a land far far away, ne’er to come back. The princess was astounded, but still managed to have the prince reveal where he was going and when was his ship sailing. She had a weeks time to convince the prince otherwise.
Crying and despondent, the princess went to her best friends, a hyper little girl squirrel names Hammie, a beautiful singing bird name V, and her favorite jungle creature and the best hug giver of all lands, a bear, called Kare Bear. They told the princess, to tell him, and urged her to. She couldn’t “say” those words to him, she had hardly known him. So they suggested, “why doesn’t the princess use the very service she gives. Send the boy a messenger message. Why lord knows, Cupid might himself deliver the message”. She chuckled. And so V was asked to fly up to the prince and give the message,

If thou feel-eth, what my heart feels, if thous’ heart beat-eth, like a jumping frog be,
Then meet me O great knight, in the garden of serenity, before befalls the night.

He agreed, to meet her. As the princess was about to leave from her castle, she was stuck by something so evil, so heinous that only the lords could save her soul now. A spell was cast on her, chaining her to her house, till the prince doesn’t leave. She didn’t know she was under a spell and hence sent one message out, for her friends groveled for it. She sent it to her love, asking him to go and not wait for her.

After the prince left, the evil wicked witch laughed, and came to the princess and said, “do you really think I would let you have the prince? He is mine now, for after marrying him I shall become more powerful than other mere witch or wizard in this world”. She now fully understood what was happening. The prince was under a spell. That compelled him to go to the far away land, in search for the witch.

The princess knew what she had to do. She had to save the prince… but how? It was then her old uncles old friend, old wise Wisdom Tree, whispered,

My dear, if your love be true,
Save your Prince don’t be blue,
Give him a kiss so true,
And let that be your only clue.

Now, she was set to sail the seven seas, find her prince, and bestow upon him the kiss of true love, to uplift the evil spell. She would need a lot of help in that, she would befriend new people in the far away land.. and she would set her prince free, and his free will would be to love her too.. OR WILL IT??

..... To be continued ...... Coming to you ...... Post Christmas ...... PART DEUX!!! ......

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Meghna

03122009