Once upon a time There was a Girl and a Wolf One in hunger The other on the brink of fear The girl shivers and cries Collapsing as her legs go numb She wipes away her tears And she clears her eyes To see glowing eyes at the forest fringe A place she was told never to venture For a she-wolf roamed that wood One with no pack One that her grandfather told stories of One whose hunger could never be satiated She has heard the horrible tales Ones that caused a tradition To spring in fear of it It was said the beast could never die There was a chilling curse Set on that tangled wood That caused this she beast to be immortal But the little one had to go A child's curiosity is never quelled So she edged ever so close Leaving a trail in snow Battered velvet dress Starting to tear Fingertips moving at a crawl The eyes at the edge have lost the sparkle She can see the beasts battered fangs No growl, no howl, no sound at all The white wolf did not pounce Not like one should The child had prepared Steeled her fragile heart Waiting for fangs to puncture Moving her small hand ever so slow She reached under her frozen dress Revealing her father's **** Laying it the edge of the wood To feed the she-wolf The wolf's eyes never blinked Frozen as the weather itself So they sat gazing at one another The girl gazed and gazed Inside this creatures black eyes She found the reason Why the wolf patrolled the edge of the wood Like a fleeting shadow Inside that wolf was not a beast But a woman instead Beautiful she was That brought tears to men's eyes This princess of sorts Was the Lord's daughter Who also sought what the forest covered But her curiosity became her everlasting doom She patrols this wood To protect ones outside the fringe From the curse that transformed her