![]() “Wonderful!” Simone, his oldest daughter smiled and twirled her blonde hair around the tip of her finger. “We’ll earn it all back! I knew we couldn’t have lost it all in the Crash!” “Today’s the day!” Claude said proudly to his children. However, the curse was so powerful that she never did find her castle nor her daughter. So upon her return from the war victorious, the Queen was unable to find her home, or her daughter, the Princessĭistraught, the Queen continued to rule her kingdom from a new castle, but she never never stopped searching. The curse made it so that none who seek the castle should find it, so those who left the castle could never return. Incensed by the rejection, the wizard lay a curse on the castle. ![]() When the Princess rejected his advances, he slashed her face with his dagger and was only prevented from doing further harm by a brave footman who fought him off and drove him from the castle. Being a proud and conceited mage, he did not once doubt that the Princess would return his affection. But the Queen was betrayed by the wizard, who, as the Princess had gone from child to woman had grown to covet her for himself. He had arranged the marriage between them and was godparent to their daughter. The wizard had been one of her husband’s most trusted advisors. So, charging the protection of her daughter and only living family to a wizard, she led her army to meet the invaders and fend off their advances. The wicked King underestimated the Queen’s sense of duty, and her love for the people for whom her husband cared so dearly. It was with this thought that he decided to invade the bereaved Queen’s kingdom. ![]() He mistakenly thought that he deserved more riches, and the acquisition of these would lead to his happiness. Despite owning all the riches of his kingdom, and sitting upon a golden throne, he was still not satisfied. A selfish and heartless man who craved power above all else, he kept his people in poverty, for it was the best way to break their will and keep them subservient. There are some amongst the race of humans who see sadness as weakness, and one of those such humans was the ruler of the adjacent kingdom. The people mourned the death of the King, for he was a wise and kind King who loved his family and his people equally. All of those things are true, and whilst the events I am going to relay to you happened a long time ago, in a land you may not have heard of (for indeed, human memory is short), their truth is universal and the lessons we take away from them are never quite learned in their entirety. You may assume that this will be a tale of magic and mystery, of love and of the inadequacies of those self-indulgent creatures known as humans. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to and purchase your own copy. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. All characters, places and events are fictitious and any similarity to persons, living or deceased, actual places or events is purely coincidental. ![]() This adaptation is written by C H Clepitt and is a work of fiction. Originally published in La Jeune Américaine, et Les Contes Marins in 1740. This is a work of fiction loosely based on a novella, La Belle et la Bête by Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve.
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