there was a dark prince who hid behind a mask and lived in the thrall of an evil sorcerer. One day, a beautiful girl from distant desert lands found him in a forest. The prince was intrigued by the girl and carried her back to his fortress in an enchanted sleep.
The girl awoke afraid, but she was brave and looked past the enchantment to see the prince’s secrets. The prince was troubled by the girl’s insight. He ran to the sorcerer to seek answers, but was left only with more questions.
While the prince sought advice from his master, the girl escaped and ran to a forest filled with snow. The prince chased her, but she was strong and the prince was wounded even before he gave chase… The girl summoned his grandfather’s sword and escaped on his father’s horse.
The desert girl sought out the prince’s kinsman, a powerful sorcerer, to fight the prince’s master, but he turned her away and she was left to explore the power growing within her alone. The wounded prince thought only of the desert girl until one day, as if by magic, she was there.
At first, the desert girl was angry. She lashed out at the dark prince. But, as the days passed and her power grew, she began to see the prince differently… and her heart was drawn to him.
The desert girl became determined to free the prince from the sorcerer. She took up his grandfather’s sword and rode his father’s horse to the palace to confront the prince and his master.
The prince brought the desert girl before the sorcerer. The girl was brave; she fought the sorcerer for the prince’s soul. But she was not strong enough to defeat him alone. The sorcerer overpowered the desert girl and ordered the prince to kill her. But the girl’s courage had weakened the sorcerer’s hold on the prince. Instead of killing her, the prince cut the sorcerer in half with his grandfather’s sword. Then the prince and the desert girl joined together and fought the sorceror’s guards as one.
Little by little the guards fell, until only the desert girl and the prince were left alive. The desert girl begged the prince to come with her and save their kingdom, but the poison of the sorcerer’s magic still remained in his heart, even if the sorcerer did not.
The prince begged the desert girl to abandon the old kingdom and rule an empire by his side, but she refused and summoned his grandfather’s sword again.The prince’s heart filled with anguish and he too attempted to summon the sword. The strain on the blade was too great and it broke in half with a great surge of magic.
When the prince awoke, the desert girl and his grandfather’s sword were gone. Filled with the shame and pain of her rejection, the prince took his armies and chased the desert girl and her allies into an old castle on a barren plain. All seemed lost until the prince’s kinsman appeared and fought the prince, giving the desert girl enough time to use her magic and escape. She carried the pieces of his grandfather’s sword and the last hope for the kingdom away on his father’s horse… and the prince was alone once more.
Yet the hope the desert girl kept with her was strong. One day it would be stong enough to drive the sorcerer’s poison from the prince’s heart… and bring him home at last.
This is literally MAGICAL!
I can imagine Rey telling this story to her children and in the end being like “that was me and Dad.”
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