First appearances...

First appearances are not always as they appear to be, for instance once inside the wrickety hut it was not anything like it was on the outside.

Inside it was a beautiful old cottage, with handcrafted wooden furniture made by the elves that swelled in the forest. Also the once was old wrinkled hag appeared to change in her own appearance to that of a beautiful bronzed skin princess with flowing ebony hair that reached to her knees, her old dress & cloak changed into the most gorgeous sequined iridescent ball gown (the kind the fairies supply to royalty)

The fairy princess was quite taken a back by this sudden change of scenery, was it a trap or was there another explanation for such a drastic difference from outside the walls of the wrickety hut to what lay inside???

She plucked up enough courage to speak to the beautiful princess that was now standing before her with a tray of the most exquisite foods she had seen.

"Excuse me young princess" the fairy princess said warily, "how could you possibly be the very same old wrinkled hag that ushered me inside from the cold?"

The princess bowed her head in shame & replied to the fairy princess "I didn't want to frighten you away, but the evil hag has put a most wicked enchantment on me"

For a moment the fairy princess looked puzzled, she didn't quite understand what the princess could mean by this. "You see the evil hag has cursed me with an enchantment that as soon as I step out of my beautiful cottage I suddenly change into an old wrinkled hag by a wrickety hut"

Suddenly it all made sense to the fairy princess, she knew that the evil hag knew bad magic & incantations, but she didn't know quite how terrible the evil hag was. She now knew her journey would be more treacherous than she once first thought.

The evil hag would not make reaching Fairyland easy for the fairy princess, in fact she thought it was going to be much more of a trek than she had made provisions for.

So the fairy princess asked the beautiful princess her name & if it would be ok to rest a couple of days safe in her company?.

The beautiful princess was called Theodora-Jasmina, she said it would be a pleasure to have the fairy princess stay a few days as it had been so long since anyone had gone near her since the enchantment had been placed.

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The wrickety hut

The fairy princess travelled for miles & miles, she was tired & weary she was fed-up. The road was long, she hadn't seen a unicorn since she had been in the mystic meadows & the pegasus that she had been travelling with needed to rest, it's wings we're tired from caring her.

As she came towards the edge of the vicious valley, there at the end stood a rather small wrickety hut. The fairy princess wondered who lived in such a tiny dwelling?! She wearily moved on as she needed to get through the valley to carry on to reach Fairyland, after the valley was a glen & beyond that a cavern... There were many paths & roads to travel, hopefully the pegasus would regain some strength to fly soon.

Half-way through the valley, the fairy princess stopped in her tracks - the rotten wooden door to the hut was starting to open slowly!

She gingerly moved forwards, ever so slightly & ultra quietly (so as not to be heard), then from behind the door appeared an old wrinkled hag "come closer my dear" she said "you look tired, let me feed you & you may rest too"

The fairy princess felt very uneasy about the old hag, was this some trick to capture her & stop her reaching Fairyland or was this a genuine offer?!

There was nobody to ask for advice, so the fairy princess had to accept this offer (although she was very apprehensive) & with that she moved towards the hut nervously.

The old hag gestured slowly forward to greet the fairy princess, she could see how nervous the little fairy was & didn't want to scare her off... It was a long time since the lonely old woman had company to share, for some reason others were scared of her but she had no idea why?

Perhaps it was her appearance?! Old, wrinkled, haggard with a crooked back & she was often wearing tatty dresses with cloaks as that's all she had these days.