Once Upon a Time ....

Once upon a time a long time ago, in a wonderful land, far, far away, lived a shriveled old man in a castle of stone.

The castle of stone was lonely and quiet, nobody came there, nobody saw, that deep in the castle it bore a dark secret.

In the depths of the castle there was a dark dungeon, with a lock made of steel and a key made of lightning.

And behind the steel door was a room very small, with a very low ceiling too low for a grown up to stand up tall.

In that room lived a lady, the daughter it was said of the shriveled old man.

She lived there and cared for her daughters and sons, all seven of them fathered by her father before.

For four score and twenty the steel door was closed and nobody came to the castle of stone in that wonderful land so far, far away.