The Tale of the Prince of Wakunda

Once upon a time, in a land far far away, let's call it EIM Wakunda, there lived a young prince. Hey, what you laughing at, this is my story, and if I want the prince to be young he was young, and do you know what? He was handsome too!

Once upon a time in the faraway land on Wakunda there lived a handsome young prince. The prince liked to think he was a just and kind prince who looked after his subjects well, and they all prospered.

The problem with being a prince is that there is always a king that rules the kingdom. One day the new king came to visit Castle Wakunda.

The evil king looked around, and instead of being pleased with how prosperous the principality was like all the other nobles were, he focused on the state of the castle.

"You need a new portcullis for your staterooms," said the evil king. "The great dining hall also needs to be redecorated, the drapes and not looking the best."

The young, and handsome prince was upset, he felt that Castle Wakunda looked quite spiffing, well apart from the straw on the floor in the Hall of Knights.

The evil king said he would arrange for a blacksmith to be in touch.

When the blacksmith got in touch with the prince, the prince was very confused. The price of a new portcullis was 2,000 gold coins, yet he could have bought one himself from Blobbit & Quackers just down the road from the Castle Wakunda. The cost of decorating the great hall was more than 16,000 gold coins.

The prince felt that this was very expensive. So he made do without a portcullis and some of the court jesters redecorated the great hall for less than 500 gold coins.

When the evil king found out about this he was furious, "how dare thy doth defy me", or something like that he boomed.

The king demanded that the work be redone using the blacksmith, or he would strip the prince of his principality. The prince was confused, surely he had saved the kingdom many gold coins, which was a good thing.

The price discovered that the blacksmith worked directly for the king, and that if he were to get the work done by the blacksmith, that the hard-earned gold coins of the people would end up going directly to the king.

The prince felt this was very wrong. So he wrote to the nobles to complain of the kings' behaviour in the hope that they would protect him from this evil.

Alas, the nobles did not protect him, and just three days after raising his concerns, he was asked to relinquish his princedom or be banished from the kingdom.

The prince refused, he wanted to fight for what he felt was right, no matter the might of the forces against him.

Alas, in the end, he lost and was banished from the kingdom, the evil king had won.

However, this is a fairy tale, so of course, it has a happy ending.

The prince went on to find his princess, and lived a happy life, knowing that he did what was just and right, and didn't succumb to the corruption of the evil king.