As you know, there was only one man in the Queendom, and he was the Queen's husband and Minister. But did you know of another man who came into the Queendom? Yes, he was a clever, handsome young man. Young Charma had wandered beyond the border of the Queendom one day, picking berries for a pie her mother wanted to make. Their carefully tended farm was just inside the border, and Charma had seen a patch of bright red raspberries. And who happened to be passing by? Why, the young fellow from the neighboring land, young Field. He was out imitating bird calls and looking for birds when he saw a flash of blue behind a bush of red berries. "A bluejay!" he thought to himself and proceeded to imitate the bird. Charma heard the sweet sound and wondered what bird could that be? So she went toward the sound. The two found each other and instantly fell in love. Charma took Field's hand and led him into the Queendom, despite the rules. Thereafter, whenever he came, he dressed himself as a woman, borrowing Charma's clothes and wearing an old wig of her grandmother's. Charma's mother grew fond of the new girl. And so they met every few days until the Queen passed by one day and found Charma's new friend. "Who is this new young woman? " asked the Queen. " Why it's my new friend, Fielda from the land just beyond," said Charma. "Oh, give me your hand, my dear" the Queen said, and when she saw that young man's large rough hand, she knew it was not a girl's hand, and immediately uncovered the disguise. Field and Charma begged her for mercy but she simply smiled and said, "Don't worry you silly young things, you shall be married". So they were, in great style, compliments of the captial, and from then on, no man dared disguise himself and went directly to the Queen if he fell in love.

Sunberries

Once upon a time, there were no berries in the Queendom, and people only ate the fruits from the trees. The only things that resembled berries were the bright red round ones that only the birds ate and which were poisonous to people. How was anyone to make strawberry and raspberry and blackberry and gooseberry pies without berries? So the Queen announced to all the neighboring lands that if anyone could bring her a delicious berry plant and establish it in their kingdom, she would grant a great reward. Many men and women came forth with raspberries and tried to plant them into the ground, and took plants and planted them, and grafted together plants and did all sorts of horrid, amazing things to try to make these berries grow, but they either drowned in the rains, or froze in the snows, or simply for some unknown reason, did not grow. Then one young woman came, and introduced herself as Sun. "I can make berries grow in your kingdom" she said, "but you must first bring me some of the soil from under your biggest tree." So the people went out and the Queen herself searched and finally found the biggest tree and they dug out some soil from under it, careful not to disrupt the ancient tree itself. And they brought the soil to Sun. Sun simply took a bunch of seeds out of her pocket, dug a hole in the ground, placed the seeds in the hole, and filled the hole with the soil from the big tree. She watched the plant for a week and then for a month, through the December season, and waited through the April rains, and soon there was a big bush of red shiny berries. "Are they good to eat?" asked a little girl. "Of course" said Sun, and everyone tasted them. Yes, they were very good. So Sun left behind a bag full of different seeds and said to plant them exactly as she had planted them before, and soon the place was colorful with delicious blue and red and black berries. Who was this mysterious Sun who had planted those first seeds? No one knew, maybe a magician, maybe some fairy, they said. And what were those red shiny berries she planted that no one had tasted before? No one knew, but we all call them Sunberries.