AN: Woot, it's another Smallville/Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale fusion. This one follows the plot of Don Bluth's Thumbelina movie (which just to be clear is not actually Disney movie) fairly closely, but I'm still letting the characters to be themselves, so expect things to get a little silly.
The full title of the Prologue is: In Which a Sorceress Sticks Her Nose Where It Doesn't Belong (But Things Work Out Anyway)
Once upon a time there lived a pleasantly middle-aged woman named Lillian, who was altogether very happy with her lot in life. She had been engaged once when she was younger, but she had recognized her fiancée for the black-hearted man that he was, and so had run off. She had ended up getting herself a small farm that she could manage by herself and, because she had a very odd sense of humor, a hirsute dog she named after her no-longer-husband-to-be, Lionel. There she lived quite contently until a day not too long before our story begins.
On that particular day, Lillian had been settling down to dinner when someone knocked on the door. Lillian had opened it to reveal an old beggar woman and Lillian, as an act of kindness, invited the woman in to share her meal. To thank Lillian, the woman offered her a tiny barleycorn: "Plant it, and it will grow. And soon you'll find an end to your loneliness."
Lillian could have pointed out to the woman that she was not, in fact, lonely, and it was rather rude of her to make assumptions like that. But instead she just gave a slightly strained smile and thanked her. And the flower that grew was very beautiful, so over-all, Lillian had been quite happy with the arrangement.
Then came the day the flower opened up and a tiny boy, no bigger than her thumb, emerged.
Well, she thought, that was unexpected.