Once upon a time there was a beautiful little princess. She was playful and happy, and was loved and treasured by all the kingdom. She was priceless. There was an evil and dark wizard who lived in the kingdom who wanted the princess for himself. He new that she would grow into a great beauty, so he plotted to one day make her his bride. He also knew that she would never willingly marry him if she knew her own value and beauty. So he cursed her and took away her reflection. When the princess went to look at herself in the mirror she could see nothing, just everything around her.
The princess continued to grow more beautiful through the years. She began asking those around her "what do I look like?" because like any young girl she wanted to know. When she asked her mother and father they would always reply "you are so beautiful! You are the most lovely girl we have ever seen!" However, she knew that even if she were terribly ugly they would never tell her because they loved her so. So she began asking her friends, "what do I look like?" But they were proud and full of envy and always replied, "you look like the rest of us."
The girl continued to grow in age and beauty, and when she was grown she no longer asked people what she looked like, but deep inside she longed to know. She needed to know.
Then one day the wizard came to the castle and told the princess how he loved her and longed to marry her. He hoped that because she didn't know how lovely she was that she would say yes in fear of never finding another to marry her. The princess did not know that the wizard had long been the captor of her reflection and had prevented her from knowing herself. She consented to the marriage on the condition that she have five days to seek out her reflection in the land. The wizard, believing that she would never be able to find the reflection, grinned his evil grin and agreed to let her go and return to marry him in five days time.
The princess set out on horse to visit every nook and cranny in the kingdom. She looked down every well, and into every shop window. It was no where to be found. So on the fifth day she set out to return to the castle where the evil wizard was waiting. Just before the castle, the princess stopped to spend some time alone in a quiet meadow. She sat in the meadow, watching the flowers sway in the breeze. As she sat, a shepherd came over the hill guiding a flock of white sheep. She had heard of this shepherd before. All the people of the town spoke of him as honest and kind. She wanted to know what his face was like, because she had heard his name many times before. She walked to him and when she drew near she noticed that he had very large, dark, lovely eyes. She drew closer still to look at his eyes, and when she was so close that she could touch him she noticed the most amazing thing. When she looked into his eyes she could see... herself. She could see her own eyes, her face, her hair.... And she could see that she was smiling. When she realized that he was staring back at her she was embarrassed and looked away. The shepherd said" no, don't look away, I have long waited to show you who you are. A wizard came to me when I was a young boy and hid something of yours in my eyes. He told me you would never look at me because your beauty would never allow you to set eyes on someone so meager and lowly. But I believed in your kindness and good heart and knew that someday you would look into my eyes and find yourself."
The princess was stunned, and the moment she learned the truth her reflection was set free, and through the eyes of the shepherd she finally knew herself.

The end