There was an evil witch-Queen who had an entire land under her dominion. You can imagine that her dominion was quite large. Every day she committed exceedingly evil acts against her subjects until they grew so tired of it that they hired a dragon to eat her.
The dragon ate her, but it got indigestion, which was rather unfortunate since now it couldn't fly away and the subjects had to take care of it until it got better. Only the dragon never got better which is about what you should expect when you eat an evil witch-Queen. She's not the sort to sit quietly anywhere, especially not in your digestive tract.
So the dragon decided to go on a quest to quiet his fractious innards, only where to start? And if he couldn't fly, how was he to get there? Walking, was the general consensus, but the dragon had an idea: what if he swam instead? That would be much faster and much easier. So he dragged himself over to the river (unintentionally squashing several trees and goats) and jumped in.
After several days, the water level was finally back to where it was supposed to be, and the dragon began to float downstream. It was very pleasant at first but soon the dragon realized that it was very boring. But before he could haul himself over a bank to get out of the river, his stomach twanged. Then it twanged again and he was filled with more agony than he had ever felt before. He also passed out. When he awoke, it was to find with some confusion that he had turned into a lima bean.
Well, what do you expect when you swallow an evil witch-Queen?
Oh, my.
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing your "What Did You Expect??" Fairy Tale #1.
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