In a very beautiful castle decorated with shades of silver that bordered the entrance, inside it has a colonial style architecture with all its comforts, in it live King Alfonso and Queen Isabela, they had been married for forty years and had never been able to conceive a child, they were getting old, the Queen lived very sad, her husband took her to the best specialists in the world and was diagnosed that she was completely sterile and could not have children.
In front of the castle of this family was another one in ruins. The townspeople say that there lived King Bicencio and his son Carlos, who was a boy of 8 years old. When a sorcerer came and turned the King into stone and his son into an insect, he was never heard of again. It is not known how this spell will be broken.
Queen Isabela was very kind to the servants and conversed with them, without establishing class differences. One day she turned to the maid Rosita and said to her if you know of any mother who has many children and would like to give me one to help her and send him to school, let me know. She replied:
"As soon as I go to my village" ,
I'll send her away. The maid went on vacation to her village, but found no one to give her a child in those conditions.
Several months passed. And one morning Rosita was in the Rosal del Castillo when she heard the cry of a child, she took him in her arms and took him to Isabela, she told the queen how she had found the child. She was very excited, carried, kissed and cooed the child, immediately had a bottle prepared for him, bathed and dressed him. The King was more excited than his wife. From that moment on they bought her a large cradle embossed with gold dots, from the moment she arrived at the Palace she enjoyed great comfort with all its amenities, they confirmed her as their daughter and named her Ruth.
From a very young age she loved to play in the rose bush with the butterflies and dragonflies, she learned to communicate with them, she liked to watch how they flew, the way they hovered in the air without moving their wings, she compared them as little evening fairies.
One day her mother approached the rose bush and watched her daughter conversing with a dragonfly and listened as she said :
"Agapito, why do you eat so many insects? He answered:
" They are my favorite dish. To you I give this flower".
Ruth got very excited and replied.
"Thank you, you stopped pollinating it to bring it to me".
In this scenario, she spent her entire adolescence and childhood in the rose bush playing with these insects, despite other responsibilities she had. When she became a young adult, she felt that the love bug was eating her, but because she was an insect she felt self-conscious and that love was secretly in her heart.
One day her parents turned to her:
"Daughter, we are very proud of you. You have made us very happy since you came to the Palace."
Her mother interrupted her:
"We are already very old, we want you to get married, so that when we are not physically here, you will have your husband to accompany you and form your family."
She replied:
"The man who will be my husband has not yet appeared", She smiled and left towards the rose bush.
A few days later, she asked Agapito to take her for a walk to a place where there are a variety of dragonflies.
He told her: "I'm afraid your father might find out and throw me out of the Rose Garden".
She replied "don't worry, we'll escape for a while and then we'll come back".
Ruth climbed Agapito's body to transport her through the sky. The young girl could contemplate the infinite oceans full of water, mountains with bushes so high that they almost touched them, until they arrived at their destination, there she could contemplate the diversity of dragonflies, among them the black, orange, blue and others. As it was very hot and this disturbed Agapito, they decided to return to the Palace, especially to the rose bush.
The young girl was so exhausted that she fell asleep in the rose bush. When she woke up she saw Agapito brushing her cheeks with his little wings, she very excitedly kissed him and that was how a young man passionately in love with her appeared, Ruth could not get out of her astonishment, her eyes became sharp as those of a vulture, her face acquired a yellow tone similar to that of the Neon butterfly, finally she could pronounce words and asked: "Can you explain to me what happened to you?:" he replied:
"Twenty years ago I was possessed by a spell that transformed me into an insect, only the love of a woman could free me from that enchantment. Thanks to you I became Carlos again, that's my name". He said to her:
"let's go to my palace to see what happened"."They ran there and found their father sitting in an armchair with all his comforts, everything was very well organized. With the servants, as if nothing had happened there in so many years. When King Byzantium saw his son, he ran to him, embraced him and kissed him, then asked, "Who is this young lady with you?
With a gesture of sympathy and coquetry she extended her hand and said:
"How do you do, my name is Ruth, I am the daughter of King Alfonso, I live in the castle in front of this one." Carlos added:
" She is the young lady who broke the spell that had us trapped. for several years. The King thanked her, kissed her and hugged her."
Today Ruth is 20 years old and Prince Charles is 28. They are very much in love and are preparing their wedding for next year.
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