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Anonymous
A long, long time ago there was a far away land in which lived a princess who was coming to an age. The Princess's father was eager to get her off her hands and heighten some international relations on the side, so she announced that her daughter was looking for a prince.
However, Princess was not so keen on marrying, and demanded that she may set a requirement for the suitors. In this case, she wanted the future husband to bring her a blue rose. The king agreed without thinking.
It soon became painfully obvious that there was no such thing as a blue rose at all. Suitors from around the known world approached the Princess to court her each bringing their own flavor of a blue rose. Some brought violet roses, but Princess said that they won't do. Some dyed roses of other colors, but Princess disliked trickery. Even more she disliked the suitors that tried to use more elegant methods, such as using conjurers to craft illusions on the rose or witchcraft to transmute the rose into some other color.
But one day, an anonymous came to see the princess, and being the peculiar kind of a man he was, had brought with him a white rose. Plain white one. Princess asked what was the meaning of this, as she had deliberately asked for a blue one.
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