the nymph turned princess

"the princess with pointed ears! she is as pretty as they say! the legends tell of a young prince finding her in the wood on a spring eve. she was the color of elm bark; her hair like Spanish moss, and it was as if she stepped from a tree and became whole, you see, right before the eyes of the prince. it is said the young man was so overcome, he escorted her to the palace and begged his mother and father, the queen and king, for twenty days and nights, to allow him to wed her in the summer...