7 April 2025
There once lived a Princess who had a crystal heart. Now this had some advantages and some disadvantages. It meant that her heart was broken very easily and the crystal shattered into smaller and smaller fragments. The advantage was that the heart glowed and this was reflected in the different expressions on the Princess#s face. When she laughed, it was like the tinkling of a brook crossing a thousand pebbles.
Every morning she would put on crystal slippers and tip toe down stairs, open the chateau windows and walk staight into the garden. She needed the rays of the sun to warm her crystal heart and she walked carefully on the grass which covered her slippers with dew - each drop reflecting the morning sun. Oh she loved the early morning, the song of birds, the leaves shaken by the summer breeze. Oh she loved the roses, bending down to smell the 'pink fancies' as she called them.
But there was crack in her crystal heart which the sun could not reach and as the years past it became deeper and deeper.
Continued tomorrow 8 April 2025
