Up, up she stepped, until right at the top she came to a room. She went through it and climbed the winding steps of a tower. She thought that she discovered every nook and cranny while playing hide and seek as a child, but, oddly enough, she now found an entrance that she had not seen before. She climbed out of her window to avoid the guard on the door, and walked around the grounds of the palace. But she was also strong headed, and when, on her seventeenth birthday, the King and Queen forbade her to leave her room, she disobeyed them. The child, whose name was Talia, grew up to be as talented as she was beautiful. After that, no one ever spoke of the ill fated banquet. The very next day the King passed a law forbidding anyone in the land from owning a spinning wheel. “It is not in my power to entirely overcome the evil wish, but I can at least do this -when the princess pricks her finger, let her not die, but fall asleep for 100 years until she is awoken by true love’s kiss.” “There remains a seventh and final wish that is mine to make,” she said. Amid the uproar, the seventh wise fairy stepped out of hiding and waved her wand to cast the spell of silence. Still laughing dreadfully, she strode from the hall. The wicked one continued: “I do so wish that the dear little princess shall grow up to be a radiant, accomplished and beautiful girl of sixteen years, the delight of her parents’ eyes, and then, on her seventeenth birthday, she shall prick her finger on the needle of a spinning wheel and DIE! How do you like that? Ha ha ha!” While the Evil Fairy held everyone’s attention, the seventh good fairy hid behind the curtains. I have come to wish my own gift upon the baby princess.” “Do forgive me for dropping by uninvited,” she said, “I will not keep you for long. Well, we do not know what gift she would have wished for, because at that moment the Evil Fairy appeared in the centre of the great hall, her mouth fixed in a false smile, and her eyes delighting in spite. The second wished her the gift of beauty. Towards the end of the evening, each of the wise fairies gave a magical gift to the baby princess. When she heard of the celebrations for the baby princess, and found out that she had not been invited, she took great offence. Unfortunately, this fairy had an evil heart. Now there was one other fairy whose magic was more powerful than all the wise ones put together.
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