I know the truth, we all know the truth. Ever since the day the princess went berserk and slaughtered her prince and dozens more. She waits here wondering where her prince has gone. Mysteriously, the king was murdered months before this incident. Which many believed to have fueled the princess behavior.

I can still remember the fire in her eyes as she ordered her guards to hold innocent peasants down while she cut them open to watch them leak. Something is wrong with the princess, she isn't who she used to be. We come here everyday, while the princess stares at the lake of longing. Seemingly clueless to the events that lead up to this despair.

We are headed back to the castle now.

Move along now- is your mind wondering says the princess.

Her words pass me by without a second thought as I am consumed with confusion. She was the sweetest most honorable princess in all the land, now the entire kingdom lives in fear of her.

As we enter the kingdom the princess wants to visit the local shopkeeper. The princess likes to bring a gift everyday to the lake of longing and proclaims she needs something special for tomorrow.

How may I help you? in a timid tone - the shopkeeper.

The princess says I want something beautiful and something shiny and something dead.

The shopkeepers face fills with confusion as he says we have nothing dead in this shop princess.

The princess says okay just give me something shiny, and beautiful.

She shopkeeper lays his most beautiful pendant on the table and the shiniest dagger in all the land.

I help the princess by holding the pendant as we leave the shop.

My curiosity encourages me to inquire about why the princess wants something dead.

As I begin to ask "Why did you need something de-

I stop.

I look down and realize the princess has plunged the dagger deep into my back.

As I fall to the ground and time slows. I recall the princess buying another pendant and dagger days before the king was murdered.