Paige Doe    
06:39pm 14/10/2009
  Let me tell you a story...

Once upon a time, there was a widow queen who had a beautiful daughter. As the young girl grew, she became more and more beautiful, and suitors from all over the land came to ask for her hand. When the girl reached a suitable age, she was betrothed to a prince who lived in a far off kingdom. The aged queen packed many costly vessels of silver and gold, cups of jewels, and the rest of the girl's dowry, for she loved her child with all her heart.

On the morning that the girl was to be married, the queen took a small knife and cut her palm. She let three drops of blood fall onto a white handkerchief. She gave the handkerchief to her daughter and said, "Dear child, preserve this carefully, it will be of service to you on your way."

The queen and the girl parted ways that day. The girl rode off with her waiting-maid. After the girl had been riding a while, the girl became thirsty. She asked the waiting-maid to bring her a drink of the stream.

The waiting-maid scoffed at her, "If you are thirsty, get off your horse. I don't choose to be your servant." So the girl dismounted and knelt beside the stream. As she bent over to get a drink, the handkerchief fell into the stream. The waiting-maid saw this and rejoiced to think she now had power over the girl. For without the drops of blood, the girl was vulnerable.

The waiting-maid was jealous of the girl and of the gold and jewels she carried with her. So as they stopped to rest for the night, the waiting-maid stole away into the night with evil schemes in her head. She found a man who only came out at night, who hid in corners, and who could disappear into the mist. The waiting-maid handed him a few trinkets from the young girl's dowry as payment to murder the girl in her sleep.

But when the man saw the sleeping girl, he saw her beauty and took pity on her. He had given his word that he would kill her, and he could not go against his promise. So he woke the girl and handed her a cup of poison so that she would die and be buried. He waited until she had been sleeping for days. Then he went to her grave and woke her.

When the girl awoke from her sleep, she was angry with her waiting-maid. She traveled with the man until they reached the kingdom of her betrothed. The girl sneaked into the castle at night. Seeing her prince and the waiting-maid asleep together, she became enraged. The next night she crept behind the waiting-maid as she wandered the corridors of the castle.

The prince mourned the loss of the waiting-maid, who he believed to be his princess. The girl peeked through the windows, and she watching the prince wither with age as the years went on. She never aged, and she resented that death would come for her love but not for her. When death came for her prince, she fled the kingdom vowing never to return.

"And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo-
that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive;
that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do,
but active accomplices."
- Joyce Carol Oates

To some it would be a dream. Society strives to remain young and beautiful. Paige will be young and beautiful forever, and it greatly upsets her. The longer she remains young, the greater her jealous and anger become. She has no issue with killing those who can do what she has never been able to do, age and grow old and die. Over the years, Paige's morals have disintegrated until all that is left is a fleeting loyalty to her "family". Her ire is great, and her temper is quick. She surrounds herself with material possessions and is not above using any means (including a little black magic) to get her way.
  
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