A Pea Story

A Pea story

This Thanksgiving, I’m thankful for a single pea.

 There was once a girl that came from far far away to seek the love she had been lead to by fairies.

As she approaches the castle and feeling confident about the task she was set out to do, a guard welcomes her, asking her business in the castle.

“I’m here to marry the prince, the fairies send me.” She replies.

Surprised of this sparky answer the maiden has, he opens the gates to the castle, giving her direction before sending her on her way.

She approaches the next door, leading into the wing, just steps away from king and queen .Yet this too was guarded.

“What is your business with the King and Queen” the guard asks.

“I’m here to ask to marry the prince. The fairies send me” she replies with a twinkle in her eyes.

The guard, delightfully surprise about the response, opens the large wooden doors to the Great Hall, announcing her arrival for King and Queen.

They welcome the young lady, telling her they have been informed of her passage, hearing a great deal about her presence and pleased to make her acquaintance.

After addressing that the prince had been out with his hunts men, the queen advises the maiden  to rest until the rising of the sun, when the King and Queen will announce her engagement.

The royal servants, 6 in total, quickly surround the young girl and show her to her sleeping chambers. They bath  and  dress her for her nights rest, then help her on top of her bed that consist of a dozen mattresses stacked one on another.

“Here you shall rest like and infant until you wake.”  She expressed with a smile, before her departure.

          

 The next day, with the rising of the sun, the maiden was picked up by the Queen herself, asking the key question of how she had slept.

“I slept horribly! As if every mattress had been made of iron plates!” she replied while controlling her urge of a yawn.

Overwhelmed with happiness, the queen embraces the maiden and states, “Then the time has come for you to meet your future husband!”

And so this story comes to a happy end, where due to the pea, and the sensibility of the fairy sent maiden, the prince is wed and they live happily ever after.