And so I did. When the villagers lit the flames on the stake to burn her alive, I reached in and saved her.
“You what?” Conor said. I took her and carried her far enough away so that the villagers would never find her,
far beyond even the kingdom of her birth, to a village by the sea. And there I left her, to live in peace.
Conor got to his feet, his voice rising in disbelief. “But she murdered the farmer’s daughter! How could you possibly save a murderer?”
Then his face dropped and he took a step back. “You really are a monster.”
I never said she killed the farmer’s daughter, the monster said. I only said that the prince said it was so.
Conor blinked. Then he crossed his arms. “So who killed her then?”
The monster opened its huge hands in a certain way, and a breeze blew up, bringing a mist with it.
Conor’s house was still behind him, but the mist covered his back garden,
replacing it with a field with a giant yew in the centre and a man and a woman sleeping at its base.
After their coupling, said the monster, the prince remained awake.
Conor watched as the young prince rose and looked down at the sleeping farmer’s daughter, who even Conor could see was a beauty.
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