The Princess´ eyes turned again to the Prince and spoke. “More than two hundred years ago I was but a large stone lying on the side of a mountain. A stone carver, took me from that place. There, in his home, he worked, carving that which you see before you. When he had finished he searched far and wide until at last he came to this place. Here on this hill, he placed me. Then he cast a spell saying”
‘once every hundred years, on this very day, my Stone Princess, you will know the joy of life. From the dawn to the dusk of that day you will live as any other mortal.’
With those words he left me, and it is here that I have remained. One hundred years later to the day I, for the first time, feel the warmth of the sun, and the smells of the living earth. For this entire day I live, as any other human. The Princess paused and smiled at the Prince, “I know that all this is too hard for you to understand, perhaps even to believe. I am indeed here, and no longer a stone figure, but a living breathing person just like yourself”. The Prince rose to his feet, stopped pacing, as if accepting what had happened, approached the Princess and knelt on one knee

“Tell me, Princess; for this day is short, what I can do for you. Do you hunger or thirst?”

     “No, I need neither food nor drink, but there is something that you can do for me....”

“That which I desire cannot be purchased with gold or silver. I wish for you to tell me of all the things you have both seen and done.”