For once, a traditional fairy story…
Once upon a time, a long, long time ago, a king and queen ruled over a distant land. The queen was kind and lovely and all the people of the kingdom adored her. The only sadness in the queen's life was that she wished for a child but did not have one.
One winter's day, the queen was sewing an apron to sell to raise money for the local school. She gazed out the ebony window at new fallen snow. She pricked her finger. A single drop of blood fell on the snow. As she looked at the blood on the snow she said, "How I wish I would have a daughter with skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood, and hair as black as ebony."
Well quite frankly if that’s what she wanted she shouldn’t have married a king from the Highlands of Papua New Guinea.