Once upon a time there lived a kingdom like any other but more and more people were speaking ill of their fellow villagers one day a nice old lady visited to buy some gifts for her family, but people would not stop at their own village and continued on to harass this old woman, the woman tried to ignore it but when someone called her a wench she stopped trying to be kind, this old witch turned around and cursed them all the village was cursed so that every insult that was said to them or to others about them appeared on their skin, the old woman then turned into a dragon and went to sit upon the mountain telling them as she went “If someone can tell me how to break the curse come to the mountain and tell me than act upon that” , many children of the village were frightened of what their parents would think about what they said to each other and became very quiet, children became mute adults lives became mundane only the sounds of birds could be heard in the evening children now stayed inside their homes. 50 years later everyone had gotten used to using just enough words to teach their kids to speak, only few people had gone to the mountain and tried to kill the dragon and every time someone had done this she said “wrong answer” and had flicked them off the mountain. A child was born like every other no one commented on this child and her parents started neglecting her and other children not even looking at her one day a word appeared on her skin though no one had spoken a word, “Hated” this word scared everyone for they knew no one had said anything for everyone feared speaking the girl had seen this and broke down crying shouting, “its true, its true!!!” people were worried people started avoiding her more, more words began appearing “Idiot” , “Ugly”more and more hateful words were appearing, only on her until one day her parents abandon her. By this time people had stopped talk of the dragon as to not lose anyone else in the village, so the girl had no idea of the dragon sleeping on the mountain. The girl gathered up stollen food in apron pockets and made her way to the mountain, she could tell from how the top of the mountain was shaped that she could at least build a small house up there, she had decided she would live there, so, following a river up the mountain, she climbed, several stops and hours later she reached the top out of breath she began looking around for a nice spot when she came upon the dragon who was awake she stared in horror for she had never seen or heard of such beast before but it didn't have the eyes of something that would hurt her. The dragon yawned and said to her, do you know how to break the curse child, I haven't seen one of you humans for ages. The girl looked at the dragon confused, “what do you mean is it a curse on my family?” the dragon looked angry and the girl backed away but as she did so she said “are you ok?” the dragon looked surprised now “so you have no clue of the curse put on your village, no clue of why it is there?!” the girl saw the dragon was not angry at her but angry at the village instead. Then the dragon asked her the very question that she didn't want to her, “why are you here then?” she began the story of what happened and how the village was “why just me?” the dragon told her the story and they both sympathised with each other for they both had been forgotten by people. Down in the village people saw the dragon and became worried for the parents knew what it was and the children were becoming curious, in this village nothing ever changed and it showed, the children hd never seen anything exciting in their lives and now there was change, doors were bolted shut stores were closed, and everything was quiet in the village as it had always been but this was a different quiet that no one had heard before, it was fear. As the dragon and girl were talking on the mountain, the dragon asked her the question “can you break the curse child?” the girl thought back to the story than looked at her words and said, if people were not so mean than this wouldn't have happened and everyone would be happy” the witch kept to her word and as she changed back into a witch the words disappeared from the girls skin. The witch told the girl to go back to the village and she would be back in a couple years to check up on them.

The girl went to the village and told the story, and told them what they should do, but she didn't tell them that the witch would be back. When the witch returned to the village everyone was happy people weren't mean to each other anymore and the girl had a word on her skin but it wasn't a hateful one it was “Loved” the story was passed down through the ages and everyone lived happily ever after.