❃✷ The Tower ✷❃

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There once was a man and woman who longed to have a child of their own, but had troubles achieving such a task. Their home was small, and had only one window that was pointed out to gaze upon a magnificent garden filled with flowers and herbs. One day, the woman stood in front of the window, gazing down at the garden below longingly. "What is wrong, dear wife?" Asked her husband with worry. "If I don't eat some of the Rampion in the garden there, I will surely die." She exclaimed.

The man loved his wife, and wished her to live, so he climbed over the tremendous wall that separated their home from the garden and stole some of the rampion for his wife. She made a salad with the rampion at once and ate the stolen vegetable greedily. The next day, however, she craved the rampion three times more than the day before. The man knew that if she didn't get the rampion, then surely she would perish, so once again he climbed over the wall to steal some of the rampion.

However, the garden was owned by a powerful enchantress who met him at the bottom of the wall. "How dare you!" She screamed. "Stealing from me, for that, you will suffer!"

"Oh, please!" Begged the man in fear.
I only stole out of necessity for it. My wife, you see, gazed upon your rampion through the window, and had such a longing for it she would have surely died had she not eaten any." Hearing his plea, the enchantress thought up a bargain and softened. "I will let you have all the rampion you can carry to appease your wife...but in exchange, you must give me the child that your wife will bring into the world, and I will be it's mother."

Caught up in his terror, the man agreed to the terms, took as much rampion as he could carry, and left. When the woman bore the child, a baby girl, the enchantress appeared and took her away, giving her the name Rapunzel. The child grew to be beautiful, and at the age of twelve, the enchantress locked her away in a tower with now stairs of doors, only a window at the very top. When the enchantress wished to go into the tower, she would call up to the girl;
"Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair."

And the girl would hook her hair on a hook above the window and let the tresses fall down to the enchantress, who climbed them up and down. Years passed, and one day, the kings son was riding through the forest when he heard a beautiful song. Following it, he found Rapunzel in the tower, but didn't know how to get inside to her, fr it had no doors or stairs. He would come out and listen to her every day, until one day, the old enchantress approached the tower. He watched as the woman called up to Rapunzel and the hair was let down. So the next day, at night fall, he came out to the tower and tried the deed himself.

"Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair." He called, and sure enough, the locks tumbled down to him. She was frightened at first, but noticed her was very handsome. When he asked if she would be his bride, she said yes. She told him to bring her a skein of silk every time he came and she would weave a ladder and leave with him. He began to come and see her every night, as the enchantress came in the day. One day, Rapunzel asked the enchantress why she was heavier than the kings son, and she grew angry. "You wicked child!" She screamed, grabbing Rapunzel's hair and cutting it all off. She dragged the girl to the desert and left her there. When the prince came, she fooled him with the trimmed locks and sneered as he gazed on her in horror. "She's no longer here, your precious bride." The prince ran from the enchantress, but fell upon thorns doing so that pierced his eyes and left him blind. He wandered for years alone, until he came upon the desert and heard a familiar voice. Rapunzel, who had birthed twins, a boy and girl, ran to him, her tears healing his eyes to sight once more. They all returned to the kingdom, where they were greeted with joy.


The kingdom was a place of peace for years after the prince married Rapunzel, the only arguments held by their children. An illness spread through the kingdom quickly, though, and it soon claimed the dear Prince, who had since become King, leaving Rapunzel to rule alone with her twins at the young age of ten. A few more years found the illness sweeping through the kingdom at full force, and before anyone knew it, Queen Rapunzel herself fell ill. She split the kingdom in two, which was fine given its size, and gave one half to each of her children to rule. After her death, her children hunted down the tower she'd been held captive in before her marriage and crowning. They tore the tower down carefully, salvaging anything they could, and built a new tower, one hundred times the size of their mothers tiny prison. The Tower sported a central tower designed carefully to be a much larger version of the original that stood in its place, the top floor made of the renewed material from the original tower, the only difference is that this tower contains doors and windows.

A the base of the tower, it splits off into four sections, one on each side of the tower. Two section belong to the Dorn Family, and two belong to the Blume family. The two have been decorated in their respective colors and style and contain numerous things. Bathrooms, conference rooms, offices, kitchens, laboratories, and various testing areas. Among these, there are rumors of underground chambers that house prisoners and "test subjects", but it hasn't been proven to the general public.

The Blume Family "The Daughter's Side", is the Left side of the tower, it's two sections connected by small passages and corridors strung between the sections under ground. The floors are long slabs of ceramic tiles in a deep chocolate brown with smaller tiles lining the walls and in between each slab. The smaller tiles are in a rose color with gold painted flower vines connecting them all together. The walls are painted a rich chocolate to match the floors with intricate flowering crown molding. All of the furniture in these sections are a rich cherry wood, the design a beautiful French Victorian style. There are many vases filled with flowers, pots with flourishing plants, detailed floor rugs and runners, and paintings. Each window is fitted with a pair of drapes in rich colors pertaining with the color schemes of the room, deep emerald greens, lush blood reds, hypnotizing sapphire blues, all bringing out the colors in the rooms.

The Dorn Family "The Son's Side", is the Right side of the tower, it's two sections connected by small passages and corridors strung between the sections under ground. The floors are long slabs of rose colored ceramic tiles with smaller, bright green tiles surrounding them. The green tiles have golden vines with large thorns painted on their surface, the vines connecting perfectly to one another to wrap elegantly around the large slabs. The walls are painted a light creme color, baring tapestries and paintings of various things, landscapes, people, animals, and it contains a simple crown molding. The furniture chosen for this section is all in a deep mahogany with a simple but elegant style. There are many potted plants here, very few of them flowering, some on tables, other hanging from the ceiling or sat on window sills. Runners and floor rugs with neutral colors like browns, tans, blacks and whites, cover a good deal of the floors, but not hardly in the halls to keep the tile work visible. The windows bare drapes in simple, neutral colors to compliment the furniture in the room which is upholstered with light, soft fabrics in fun designs like stripes, in pastel colors.