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A while back, there were two kingdoms situated close by each other.
One kindgom had a powerful king, and the other had a relatively weak
king. The difference (or so everybody said) was that the powerful king
had a magic throne, which had the property of making people powerful.

Well, the weak king wanted this throne, so he had a trusted count get
up an army (you know, knights, pages, reporters, that kind of thing) to
fetch it.

The army trudged along for a day or two (only the reporters would
know for sure) and came upon the powerful king's castle.

The castle entrance was guarded by a huge yellow monster with huge
yellow hands. The army (being an army and all) attacked!

The huge Yellow Monster ate them all, except for two pages who did not
engage in the fight. The pages, being very frightened, hid until nightfall.

When night came along, the pages peeked from their hiding place and
saw that the monster was asleep. The only thing guarding the entrance
now was the monsters huge hands draped in front of the opening. The
pages, being only 8 years old and all, were able to squeeze through the
yellow fingers and gain entrance into the castle.

Moral: let your pages do the walking through the yellow fingers.