Once upon a time, a girl was born into a loving royal family that is very environmentally aware. The parents decided to name their baby girl Snow Grey to remind the people of the kingdom that if they continue to pollute the cities, the snow would one day turn grey. Contrary to popular belief, they did not name their child after her skin color, because that would be racially discriminating. (The race of Snow Grey will be left for the reader to decide because the storytellers, too, do not wish to be racially discriminating.)
Unfortunately, Snow Grey’s mother passed away when Snow was two and her father married another woman. The woman hated Snow Grey because her name reminded her of her growing age and increase in grey hair. The stepmother felt insecure and based her worth on her looks. Everyday, after showering, she would look towards her magic mirror on the wall and ask, “ Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?” Usually, the mirror would answer, “My dear queen, you are the fairest of them all.”
One day, however, the queen did not dye her grey hair black (for environmental reasons requested by the king.) Again, she asked, “Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?” The mirror, detecting the emerging grey hair, said, “My dear queen, even though you are fair, Snow Grey is the fairest of them all.” The grey-haired queen immediately ordered the woodchopper to kill Snow.
The woodchopper, a very kind man, wanted to save Snow, so he let her go. Snow Grey ran miles through the forest and arrived at the land of the vertically challenged. They people that live in the village decided to let Snow stay, however, Snow had to work along the vertically challenged people. The villagers were not sexually biased, so the women and the men did the same work together. Snow was very grateful for their kindness and decided to stay.
Back at the palace, the new Queen again asked, “Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?” Again the mirror answered, “My dear queen, even though you are fair, Snow Grey is the fairest of them all.” The Queen was furious and set out to the land of the vertically challenged to the kill Snow herself. She brought with her poisonous apples, hoping to kill Snow.
When the Queen got to the village, she offered her poisonous apple to Snow Grey. Surprisingly, however, Snow bit into the apple and nothing happened to her. She just smiled an thanked the chronically gifted woman for the sweet apple. The Queen was bewildered of the weakness of the poison, so she decided to try the apple herself. Within a few chews, the evil queen died.
The apple was indeed poisonous, but why did Snow not die? The reason for this was that she had been ‘vaccinated’ for the poison during her stay at the village. The vertically challenged village vaccinate their villagers of poison every month, so that they would not get poisoned (as it would spread fast in their tiny body)
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