Arven

Arven is fascinated by a keep that he has to pass on his way home. When he was young, and foolish, he tried to look through the thorns at the keep's base for an opening. In the shadow of the keep, human bones were hanging inside the thorny bush.

A young man, a prince, then approached him and asked for his aid in getting to the keep. Arven at first thought him nuts, but heard the story of the keep the prince told him. Because the prince wasn't doing the venture for fame or for the woman waiting in the cursed keep, but to fix want an ancestor messed up, to make things right for a woman cursed to sleep for more than one hundred years.

The prince followed Arven to the keep, and enchanted the old man's ax. Arven then cut a path to the keep, and they worked their way to the sleeping girl, forced to lead the way as Arven some how always seems to be carrying the light.

When they found the girl, she was in a heap on the floor. Arven went to her and gently picked her up, shocked by the determination and character in her face, though he naturally expected her to be beautiful. He was also surprised when the prince told Arven to kiss her. When he went to ask the prince why he had to kiss her, he then saw that the prince was translucent.

Arven kissed the girl and broke the curse. As the prince vanished, Arven remembered his late wife and the last words he said to her. "Wait for me"