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Once upon a time, there was a peasant girl named Garnet. She was a big troublemaker. She thought it was unfair how some people, like the nobles, got everything, while her family got nothing. Her family was often hungry, so she would steal from the nobles.

Everyone disliked her, and eventually the news spread to the palace. The king decided it would be best if someone kept watch around the area where Garnet was. He assigned the task to a knight named Winston. Winston was a brave knight and always did the tasks the king made him do.

Yes, Sir!

Winston was walking to Garnet's village, while Garnet was at home, giving her parents the food she stole from a noblewoman. Her and her parents were always starving, but Garnet's parents felt like what Garnet was doing was wrong.

"Garnet, you shouldn't steal from other people. It's bad," they would tell Garnet.

"But mom, we are starving. You are old and need your food. Can't you see that we need more food than those nobles, who get anything they want?" said Garnet. Her parents didn't know what to say. It was true. And they couldn't say anything about nobles because they knew nothing about them.

Winston made it to Garnet's village and rested in a local inn. Everyone was sleeping. The next morning, everyone woke up and Garnet went out to steal some breakfast.

Garnet was stealing some food from a noble, when the knight, Winston, came to stop Garnet.

"Stop right there!" he called to Garnet.

Garnet turned around and saw Winston, so she started running.

Winston kept running and running. Garnet was fast! He finally caught up to Garnet and grabbed her by the arm.

"Give it back to him," Winston said.

"I need it more than he does!" said Garnet.

"What do you mean?" asked Winston. "His life depends on the food that you steal from him. He needs it to feed himself or to sell to get money. You have to buy his food or make it yourself."

"I can't buy it!" said Garnet. "I'm too poor!"

"Why don't you make one then?" Winston asked. "Or try working? Money comes from hard work."

"We do work!" said Garnet. "But our store is very unsuccessful. And we don't know how to make food. Stealing is hard work, too."

"But stealing is not fair," said Winston. "You are taking other people's money and hard work. Do your own hard work."

Garnet sighed. "But princes and princesses don't need to work hard. They get anything they want!"

"They don't get anything they want," said Winston. "And they do work hard. They keep their land in control and make sure everyone is treated how they see fit."

"How do they see this fit!??!" asked Garnet.

"If you do not see this fit, you can tell the king or queen," said Winston.

"How will I reach them?" Garnet asked.

"You can decide for yourself, but be fair in the process. And be respectful to them," Winston told Garnet. Garnet thought about it.

"What is a good paying job?" Garnet asked.

"Well, being a knight pays well," said Winston. "Are there any young men in your family?"

"No," said Garnet. "But if I can get good money, I'll become a knight!"

"You can not!" said Winston. "You are a woman. Women should stay home and do house chores."

"No way," said Garnet. "Women should have rights, too. And if women have rights, it would be fair, anyways. Nobody hurt or anything."

"Women would hold the army back," said Winston with a louder voice. "No women are allowed in the army!"

Garnet sighed. "Now you are not being fair," she said. Garnet gave the noble's food back to the noble and left. Garnet went home. Garnet's parents were surprised to see that she had not stolen food, today.

"I want to become a knight," Garnet said to her parents. "It pays well, so I can get money to support all of us. And I want to atone for the bad deeds I have done."

Garnet's parents were shocked. "You can't!" they exclaimed.

"Why does everyone think women can't be knights!?!?" said Garnet angrily. She stomped to her room to think what to do. It was a fair idea and there was nothing wrong with it, she thought.

The next day, Garnet decided to do another act everyone would call bad. She was going to become a knight. Garnet thought it was not fair how women had to just do house chores all day. She thought if women were willing to give up their life to be in the army, then they should do that.

A fairy agreed with Garnet. Garnet had finally learned about fairness and now, was going to fight for fairness. So the fairy approached Garnet.

"I have a spell that will make you stronger, just like a knight!" the fairy said to Garnet.

"No thank you," Garnet told the fairy.

"Why not!?!?!" asked the fairy. "Didn't the knight say women weren't strong enough? You need the strength!"

"He did say women would hold the army back," Garnet said. "I will become strong enough on my own, to prove women can be strong. If I use magic, that will only prove women need magic and can't do anything themselves! Plus, magic can sometimes be broken or wear off. Hard work will never wear off!"

The fairy was surprised by Garnet's answer. Garnet never liked working hard, but now, because of the knight's words, she was working hard to become a knight and get money to support her family.

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"The Peasant Girl and the Knights"

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A peasant girl named Garnet desperately wants to be able to support her poor family. She meets someone who tells her about a good job, but everyone says she can't get the job! (Some parts based on the movie Mulan).

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