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The Queen sank to the ground and shook her head, “I will never be able to do that. You don’t understand. That is just too hard.”
“Well...” said the Elf, “It is of no consequence to me one way or the other. I really don’t care. If you can’t do it, fine... but you can’t have the key if you don’t complete the tasks."
The young Queen rubbed her hand on the grass and sighed. “I’m so tired of being unhappy but your tasks to get the key to Tree of Happiness are very difficult.” “Yes, they are difficult but you must decide,” the Elf replied. “All right! All right!” she said. “I’ll do the trials if that is what it takes to get the key.”
I told Edgar that the Elf was making getting the key very difficult. Edgar agreed with me but then he asked, “What would you be willing to do to achieve happiness?”
"Why, just about anything," was my reply.
“Just a minute,” said the Elf, “I did not say that I was finished.”
“What ... you mean there are more tasks? You are being just too unreasonable. I just can’t believe there are more tasks,” the Queen screamed. “Just one more task,” said the Elf. The Queen sighed in relief. “Just one more?” “Is that it?” she demanded. “If I can do these others, I can do one more.” “Good, good,” the Elf replied.
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