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They all wanted a piece of her. She knew it, seeing their eyes, seeing the faint red glow of the edges of their scales as their blood became inflamed when they saw her. She even saw a few coiling off in the corners to talk to each other about possible sharing agreements--half a princess was better than none. She didn't know how they knew she was a princess. She was too wise to believe that there was something special about her blood, that her bones were finer, that she was a superior class of being to the other milkmaids that she'd been hiding among. But still they'd found her, swooping down out of the sky and incinerating her cow in front of her, grasping her with those knobbly talons, and flying away with her back to their fortress. She just couldn't figure it.

Inspiration: Trying to get a CSA share split.
Story Potential: Medium.
Notes: Meh. This has the feel of one of those dragons-*are*-supreme-rulers stories, but I'm still not interested in it.
The twist on the tale, as he always liked to say, came at the beginning, when nobody would have expected it. After that, it all seemed to settle out into the normal run of affairs, with a poor helpless princess and a fine knight charging to her rescue. The twist, though, as twists are wont to do, came around again at the end, when the knight discovered that his princess was, though very princessly, not as female in certain key areas as he'd been hoping for. It was a case, he found, of the seventh son being gender-switched at birth to avoid certain prophecies about seventh sons of a seventh son. It happened fairly regularly in this particular family, as they had always had the double curse of, well, The Curse, as well as being as prolific as rabbits let run wild in a farmer's field. The fair maiden blushed and fainted when she allowed the knight to slide his hand up her skirts, just a bit, just far enough for him to see what sort of prize he'd won--it was tradition, after all, and they were to be married--she'd been rescued fair and square after the dragon--

Inspiration: Thinking about the twist in a story I'd just been listening to.
Story Potential: High.
Notes: At first I thought this didn't really have much in the way of potential, but then I became intrigued by the notion of the way that a person born male but raised female would feel once it was revealed, esp. in such a very traditional setting...a curse provides a good fairytale reason for this, but I wouldn't really tell it as a fairytale, I don't think...or maybe I would....

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