The Warrior

There once was a warrior called Big Bear named after his size who had lost his queen. He travelled to the woods to seek her and came to a cottage surrounded by a vast river. Knowing the queen was there he did not know how to cross the river for there was no bridge, he looked around and had an idea, he threw big rocks into the river and waited. Seeing the rocks the queen passed over but Big Bear wasn't there, the animals led her down a path until eventually she came to a cave, the warrior was waiting inside.
"Come in queen", he said and sit by the hearth. She sat down by an unlit fire surrounded by a small circle and Big Bear picked up one of the rocks, "somtimes" he said, "you have to chip away the rock to find the gem inside." "And somtimes" said the queen, "all you find his dust."

"Why did you desert me?" she asked the warrior. "You fell from grace" replied Big bear." "You let me", she said, "I looked over my shoulder and you wasn't there, gone!" The warrior looked at the queen and rose his mighty sword above his head and said, "come queen lets ride into battle together and I will never forsake you again." "You sure", she said, "I mean you are a man aint you", (sorry, joke). "I'll pretend I never heard that" he said, and with a smile on his face and a twinkle in his eye, he lifted her up onto his horse and they rode back to the castle.
The End.