... there was a young princess called Snow White.

Snow White was, as everyone knows, the fairest of them all. Skin white as snow, hair black as ebony, lips red as blood and eyes like the night sky. After her adventure with the seven miners and the prince who married her, she has grown even more beautiful, with shapes and curves that her thirteen-year-old self never possessed. They married young in those days.

Her prince was disappointed that she had so far failed to give him any heirs. What neither of them knew was that the poisoned apple had in fact not intended to kill her but merely to leave her barren, ensuring that her bloodline would never prosper. Her stepmother was truly evil. After five years and no children, the prince asked the bishop to annul the marriage.

Snow White was devastated, of course, but asked for one last chance. She wished to seek a cure for her infertility. The bishop agreed that she should be given a chance, and decreed that if she had not returned and become with child within a year and a day, the marriage was to be undone. The prince feigned **** but was looking forward to all the fun he would be having with the local farmers' daughters while his wife was away.

Snow White immediately packed a bag and left the kingdom on her favorite horse, heading towards the forest where her friends, the seven miners lived. The oldest of the miners was both book-learned and wise - surely he would know what to do, she thought, as she entered the forest on paths that once were as familiar to her as the back of her own hand.