"Twenty bridges from Tower to Kew
Wanted to know what the River know
For they were young and the Thames was old
And this is the tale that the River told:"
The fairies were evil as well as clever. Even though they couldn't lie, they were able to deceive the young sailor, who had set out in the sea on a journey to look for his little one who had been abducted by these very fairies, into saying the treacherous words, "Then share thy pain, allow that sad relief; Ah, more than share it! Give me all thy grief," thus condemning him to an eternity of sorrows.
The little one wasn't little anymore, though. She had grown up to be the Queen of the Seelie court; the very reason that the fairies had abducted her. She was the one the prophecy referred to, after all. She was extraordinary to her core for she was the first human born to ever take the place of the queen. But her upbringing among the cruel fairies could never deplete the compassion buried deep in her soul.
She had heard of the sailor who had been tricked by her own kin to bear the sorrows of the world, a duty the Queen is entrusted with for someone has to do it and who better than the Queen herself whose court brings sorrows to others. But the former Queen had been crafty. She had tricked the sailor into taking that duty-or as the Seelie court called it, the 'Curse'-upon him. A mere mortal deceived to bear an eternity of sorrow.
Her roots called out to her, the Queen's. Even though she was unaware of her roots and her ties to the poor sailor, kind and compassionate as she was, she decided to relieve him of his predicament. She willed the duty upon herself, the sailor given a life anew with no recollection of the past including his abducted little one or his life prior to that fateful incident.
The rest of the story was unfortunately lost in the waters. What really happened to the Queen is not known. But what could get out was that the young and noble Queen now lives somewhere unknown in isolation, fulfilling her duty of a true Queen.
Ironic in its foundation , the story. Not a fairie born but a human born became the true Queen of the court, taking upon her what her court inflicted upon others and more. Proving that nothing in the universe can survive independently. On the contrary, the fairie born Queen only amplified her court's misdeeds, failing the very task she was bestowed upon by the Creator himself. "Your roots call out to you even when you are oblivious to your origins; even in the greatest of transformations, you never lose your true nature."