Write a fairytale

            Once upon a time there was a beautiful but unfriendly born princess. Her name was Helena. Because Helena was cold to others, an enchantress put her in a fortress she could never leave. In this fortress was a magical mirror that allowed her to communicate with the outside world. Anyone who came to the mirror’s twin in the outside world, Helena had to talk to. The only way for Helena to escape the fortress was if someone went to it, knocked down the walls, and rescued her. All of the walls were very thick, but one of them had a small chink in it. That crevice weakened the wall so much that it would easily fall, but it was hidden so well that only one who really searched for it could find it. And the chink only weakened the outside of the thick wall. No matter how Helena pounded on the walls, none of them would come down.
            Helena was surly to all of her visitors though, that they stopped going to the mirror. She was happy about this at first. “All of the visitors have been so boring,” she would say. “They go on and on about stupid and silly things. Not once has anyone said anything that could keep me interested at all.”
            Soon, Helena began to feel alone. She had done everything there was to do in the fortress. Most of those things annoyed her as well. None of the books had a good enough story. None of the art was pretty enough to look at. The stone walls only stared back at her. She became so bored with her life, she would call into the mirror, hoping that someone would hear her and visit with her. But when someone would come to the mirror, she would tire of them quickly, just as before.
            One day a young farmer came to the mirror. His name was Ralf, and he had recently inherited the land he farmed. Upon seeing him, Helena knew right away that he would be more boring than most, but she had to talk to him as part of her curse. She decided she would be meaner to Ralf than she was to most people.
            But Ralf wasn’t what Helena had assumed. After talking with her for a bit, he asked about the painting that was behind her. It was one of Helena’s least favorite paintings in the fortress, but Ralf thought that it was amazing. The way he described it made Helena look at it again and realize that it wasn’t so bad. In fact, it was a bit interesting.
            Day after day, Ralf would visit Helena in the mirror. He would tell her funny and exciting stories, show her sketches he had drawn that day, and smile at her with such warmth. Helena began to see her fortress differently. It still trapped her, but it wasn’t so boring or hideous. She wanted to escape the fortress so much though because the outside world was more interesting to her than ever. She wanted to see the mountains that Ralf described. She was sure that she had seen mountains before, but Ralf had a way of making things come alive to her.
            She wanted to tell Ralf about how he could come and rescue her, but she couldn’t. That was another part of the curse. Even though she knew how to break it, she couldn’t tell anyone else. Finally, one day Ralf asked her about where she lived. She told him about the curse and how someone had to break down the wall to rescue her. He decided to try and find her to save her. So he took the mirror with him and traveled until he found the fortress.
            When Ralf finally found the tower, but the wall was already split wide open. He walked through the wall and easily found Helena and led her out of the tower. For every time that Helena had let Ralf into her heart or she let him show her a joy in the world, the chink in the wall grew larger. The wall that enclosed her in the fortress was the wall around her heart. She had the power all along to destroy it, but did not know it and chose to be unfriendly to the world. But once Helena’s heart was exposed, she was free. All it took was Ralf, who was patient, to find her.