The Panda Prince (Moriah)

As you step onto the springy green turf beneath the tree, gold and silver light filters through its branches. The tree is huge, old, and tall. There are a number of knobbly places on its bark, and it looks as though it's about to sprout a face and speak to you.
Before you know it, you're standing next to it, and as you look up into its branches, you hear strains of old stories and songs. Entranced, you press your ear to the rough bark. You sit in wonder as you listen to a golden tale of old. And this is the tale you hear...

Princess Eva got out of bed to get ready for the suitors that would surely come today.
Eva had long black hair and beautiful brown eyes.She had a light complexion that fit her just right.She got into a long maroon dress and then sat while the Ladies-in-waiting did her hair.

Later...

She waited for the next prince to come in. This prince brought a diamond ring, the next a panda bear. Several others brought gifts for her.But of all the gifts she liked the panda bear best. How surprised she was when it spoke to her:"This life should be better,shouldn't it?"
"Yes,it should, but how can you speak?" she replied.
"Long ago...." he said." I was a prince,the most famous prince in all the land.But then I broke Father's magic staff and the magic was released and somehow I was turned into a panda bear. But I can still speak to you."
"Why were you the most famous prince in the land? What great thing did you do?" Eva asked. And he said :
"I loved my people, and my people loved me back."
"What was your name before you were turned into a panda?"
she asked, trying to remember her history lesson about the most recent
princes and princesses of this land.
"Robert" he said.
"Prince Robert the Great!" Eva thinks excitedly. And then her other panda (she also was a gift from a price) came in. Eva had named her Violet because she had a crown on made of violets when a prince gave her to Eva. Violet walked up to the panda prince and licked him on the nose. And suddenly(Poof!) he was a prince again! Eva was so happy! Prince Robert got down on one knee and asked Eva to marry him, and she said:
"Yes, I will marry you."
The marriage was held two weeks from that day. And they lived happily ever after...


You slowly pull your slightly sore ear away from the bark of the tree. You lay your hand on the tree trunk in farewell, and your mind turns to the adventure you just heard, and suddenly you want to have adventures of your own. So you turn and walk thoughtfully away from the tree to find out what is in store for you.