The New Fairy Queen
Once upon a time there was a little girl who was born in a dungeon to a fairy princess who was kept by an evil sorcerer. The princess didn’t know who she was. Hence, the little girl didn’t know who she was either. In truth, the sorcerer thought he was an average man, and he had no idea that he walked around casting evil spells on the whole house with a simple word. It came to pass, one day, that the princess realized she must find some way to escape from the sorcerer and get away from the dungeon in which she lived. She knew there was a place where the sun shines and rain falls. She had a faint remembrance of it, though it had been many years since she saw the sunlight or tasted the rain...and she was under a deep and dark enchantment. She seemed almost lost and drowning, all at once, as she began to dig a tunnel beneath the outer wall with a rusty spoon. She spent days or months or years, tunneling. While she did thus, the little girl grew. She grew into a beautiful maiden. Growing ...