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Tonight I will tell you a story of a princess. You would have heard of many princesses: Cinderella, Snow White, Ariel, Belle, and many more. All of them, pure and kind-hearted, were rescued by princes at sometime or another. Our princess, however, was neither pure nor kind-hearted. Her tale has no such prince and no happy ending. If you dislike sad, upsetting ends, I suggest you leave this story. Walk away from it. Get yourself a happy story, read it and forget you ever heard of this one. If you enjoy dark stories however, go ahead. But you have been warned.....
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There was once a princess who loved to read fairy tales more than anything else in the world. She would sit for hours on end and read stories, tales, of how princesses were rescued by princes. She was loved dearly by her parents, the rulers of the kingdom. However, they wished their daughter would spend more time learning about the land and the people, since she would be taking care of them soon.
When she was 15, and ready to be crowned the heir to the throne, she bluntly refused. "Why should I be the heir? Why not one of the ministers? Why must I waste my precious time ruling a country when I can read as many fairy tales as I want?" she said. Her parents, however, had had enough of their daughter's stubbornness. They forced her to accept the crown. But she locked herself up in her room which was in the tallest tower of the castle and refused to come out. Her mother, sick with worry about her daughter, passed away in just ten days' time. Her father, who was already ill and weak, couldn't bear the shock and followed his wife soon after. But the princess, when informed through a small piece of paper that was slipped under her door, still showed no signs of coming out, or even feelings of remorse for her parents' deaths.
The land fell into a state of chaos, panic and confusion. Other kingdoms attacked and destroyed everything in their wake. Yet, the princess still refused to leave her room. Soon, nothing, nothing except the princess' tower, was left standing. The land which once prospered many years ago, was now a pile of rubble. All the kingdoms that attacked left the tower standing out of pity for the land and as a symbol of their victory.
One king, however, was interested in the tower's occupant. One moonlit night, quiet as his surroundings, the king crept into the tower and stole away with the princess. She woke up the next morning, to find her head in the king's lap. He had been so captivated by her beauty that, while gently stroking her long brown hair, he asked her to marry him. She, who had been waiting for a prince or a king to take her away and ask for her hand in marriage, agreed at once. They were to be be betrothed the very next day, when the princess realized that, after marrying the king, she would have to help rule the kingdom. Once again, this idea did not appeal to her for she wouldn't have time to daydream and read fairy tales. The king, surprised and angered by her change of heart, locked her away in a tower. "You were found in such a place, now you shall rot away in such a place." he said.
The princess had, however, read enough fairy tales to be convinced that a prince would come and rescue her from the tower and so, didn't come to her senses. She sat, and hoped and wished and longed, but all in vain. No one came, and her longing drew her to madness. In just a year's time, she could take it no more. And so, she jumped from the window of the tower. Her body was found by a serving maid but when shown to the king, it was left there to rot. For not a single soul mourned the death of the princess.
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