- Rapunzel says a few words
"Princess Solara, also known as Rapunzel. Come forward please," stated the judge.
Rapunzel looked around and then got up and walked to stand in front of the judge. Today she had her braid changed slightly, she still had the big braid down her back but there were now a couple of smaller braids that hung down her sides that she could worry. It was easier to think now that she had figured out that she liked to worry her hair while thinking.
"Yes."
"What happened to you as you lived in the tower?"
"Not much, really. I cleaned the tower. I cooked the food. I painted the walls. I read my books. I played my guitar and my lute. I spun thread to made cloth. I made dresses for Mother, myself and Pascal."
Pascal rolled his eyes in opposite directions on her shoulder. He didn't really like playing dress up, but there wasn't much else to do.
"Pascal and I would play games, chess, hide and seek, puzzles and more. While I spent most of the day alone; at night Mother would teach me songs, play so I could dance, tell me stories, talk to me about plants, and tell me about how awful the world was."
"I kept wishing my life would begin and now it has, but I rather liked the quiet of the tower, there was time to think and understand things. Everything here moves so fast and there is so little time to really think about things."
The judge considered that for a moment. "Was Gothel good to you?"
Rapunzel bit her lip, she had promised to be honest for the trial. "I always thought so, but I didn't have anything to compare it too, though. She would punish me when I was bad, make me feel not strong enough to leave the tower, but she told me she loved me most and that felt good."
"She told the Stabbington brothers about me, and saved me from them, too. She really did save me from Eugene, he was climbing my hair and I wasn't ready and he was ripping me apart, but she pulled on my hair and the chain and took as much of the weight herself as she could."
"I hated her when I realized who I was. It hurt so much to know who I was and that she had stolen me and that she had betrayed me so deeply, because I loved her and I thought she loved me. I had wanted to go back to the tower to heal Mother and keep her young and healthy."
"I thought she didn't really love me, but now I know she does, because she let me come home. I still love her, too."
"Anything else you would like to add. Thank you, princess. You may be seated." The judge said as the princess shook her head.