The Lion followed the princess home...he wanted to make sure she was okay...he didnt' know why she had to go out in this snow...why did she have to find Sam....he was nuts....playing a snowman...now come on...okay, he himself had put on so many disguises lately it wasn't funny...but Sam was playing way over his head...making others think he was the Universe...he was just another wizard...a beginner at that...not nearly as powerful as he was...
The princess arrived home safely...she didn't know she had been followed...if she had noticed she would have thought her Lion was back...but it wasn't him...it had never been him....it had always been the Wizard....
The original Lion was a fool...he had had it all in the princess....but stupidly had thrown it all away...a prince? the Wizard laughed to himself...more like a frog that one...no guts....hopefully someday the princess would see him for what he was...and realize that it was the Wizard all along that had been there for her...not the prince...no Lion had that one ever been...
The Wizard slips into the house through a window and pretends he has been there all along...it is not time for the princess to find out that who she loves is really me in disguise....I must give her time...
The princess comes in tired and cold from her walk in the snow...she lays down on the couch and closes her eyes...so much to think about she sighs...but I am much too tired right now...maybe after I rest I can make some sense of it all...the princess falls asleep and the Wizard comes in and sits down and watches her...he loves this baby girl so much...how can she not see the truth...he has played his parts too well...as the wolf he stayed by her side on a long journey...he was the Lion in the forest...sometimes even the prince...maybe he had made a mistake...kept her love alive for the wrong one...but she hadn't trusted him from the start....so he had thought if he switched into the others she would come to love who he was...eventually see him as he really was...and see that it was what was inside that mattered...he had made a mess of it all...now how would it end...what would the princess do and say when she found out the truth...
The Wizard fell asleep himself...stress put a frown on his face...set new wrinkles in his forehead...when the princess woke...she stared at the face she had come to know more than he knew...quietly she got up and wandered out to look again at the snow...the sun had come out and it warmed her face...the princess walked around the house...wandering aimlessly....as she walked the princess came across footprints in the snow...Lion prints...she paused...then followed them...one direction they showed that the Lion had followed her as she had come home from her walk...and the other direction...well, they stopped at the window...a window that was still open a crack...now just what did this mean? puzzled the princess went into the house and made sure there was no one there but her and the Wizard....the rooms were empty...no one around but her and the Wizard...no Lion...but the Lion had come in through the window...she knew it...where was he....maybe he was still here she thought...maybe he was the Wizard...it made sense...but so many other things didn't now...this was too much to think about...tomorrow the princess would once again have to find Sam and see what he thought...
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