Queen mauve learns to fly.

Once upon a time there was a queen named queen mauve, and she was the reigning monarch in all the land of gelp. She had no husband, so she was all alone. She ruled over the people fairly, and was liked by all. If ever there was a schism between two or more political parties in the land of gelp, queen mauve would figure out a suitable middle ground. One day, she decided that the mass transportation system needed an overhaul. She then listened to her top advisers, her not top advisers, several experts on the topic, a couple of u.s. senators, the heads of the various political parties, and many of the people on the street. After a long and arduous process, she had narrowed her options to three.

The first option was to build a viaduct. The second option was to use trains. The third and final option was to use busses, and allocate roads that only the busses could use. She tried to figure which one to use. She asked her top advisors, but they were split between the three, so were her not top advisers, and all the experts on the topic, the u.s. senators, and the heads of the political parties. After a long pause she decided to put it up to a vote open to the general public. When all the votes had bean counted, and re counted, re voted due to allegations of election fraud, lost, found, re-written on to red pieces of paper rather than blue, and then counted again, the population was still divided equally between the three. All the people in the land waited to hear her answer, so she went into a quite and empty room, sat on the ground



Just then, leprechaun materialized and told her that he would grant her one wish. she asked “why are you a leprechaun and not a genii?”

“genies give you three wishes, I only give you one” he explained, somewhat exasperated.

“yes, but why do I only get one wish” “she inquired.

“because I am a leprechaun.” He reiterated.

“why are you a leprechaun?” she queried.

“because of my mom.” He said, somewhat abashed.

Queen mauve gave up trying to find out why she had bean sent a leprechaun and not a genii. She thought long and hard about what to wish for. She thought of the problems besetting her people, war, famine, and droughts. She thought of he personal problems, her brother, her lack of husband and many other things. Then she said.

“I want to learn how to fly!”

and the leprechaun waved his arms around in the air and said so magical words, and disappeared. Queen mauve leapt over to the giant four poster bed and tore of a bed sheet. She ran to the balcony, and stood very still, holding the bed sheet over he head. after a second, she adjusted her grip so that her hands where three quarters of the way between the corners, on the long end, and so the majority trailed out behind her. Then she jumped into the air, and the bed sheet lifted he away and she flew around the city.

When she landed, she went back inside, folded up the bead sheet, issued forth from the room she had bean in, and addressed her people, for she had made a diccision.