Rumplestiltskin moderne v3

Once upon a time, maybe 25 years in the future, a beautiful girl named
ariadne lived with her father in an abandoned apartment building they
had converted into a windmill.

Before she had been born, an old fortune teller had knocked on the door
begging to read fortunes. She read her cards and had told her mother
that she would have daughter. She gave her mother an ordinary wood
pendant on a string necklace and she would return one day with its
pair.

Her mother got sick and died during the war of oil and water. The bombs
that fell broke buildings, tore up road and made lots of people sick and
poisoned the air and water. Many people died, but not her or her
father.

A boy came holding the pair of the wooden necklace. A relative of the
old lady, the boy came to work in the mill to feed his family. Everyday
he taught her how to sing, dance, play music and tell stories. So as she
worked in the mill she sang and dance, and put her heart into grinding
her wheat that made her everyday more beautiful.

Slowly her flour became famous for so evenly ground, so pure, and so
finely ground that one day the king heard about it.

A few things you should know about kings that people rarely tell you. A
kings job is fighting and killing and doing whatever it takes to protect
his kingdom from being taken by other kings, and at the same time trying
take kingdoms away from other kings. All this fighting and killing is
terribly expensive and so the king is always looking for gold to pay for
fighting.

One thing you should know about this king was that his name was othello,
and yes you guessed it, his lieutenants name was iago. But king othello
was unmarried and when he was fighting or raising money to fight, he was
looking for women worthy of his droit de seigneur.

So when the miller heard the king was interested in the famous flower
flour, he became afraid that his daughter would refuse the king, and the
king would have her jailed or killed.

Knowing the kings greed for gold might distract him his daughters.

Joshua Paul
http://joshuapaul.blogspot.com/