She remembered happier days, filled with the beautiful books that the Prince was offering her as gifts, the yellow birds braiding her hair, the lemon trees producing fairy tales; the same fairy tales that the Prince would read to her during the night with his melodious voice, by the fire, under the enchanted sky of many moons... One night, they even went off and found themselves flying and later sitting back to back on a golden crescent moon. It was that very night that the Prince narrated the story of Poulia and Avgerinos*.
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*Poulia and Avgerinos are the names that Greek tradition gives to Venus, a planet also known in many cultures as the Morning and the Evening Star.