I just read the story. And a few things stuck out to me specifically. 1. the golden feather that fell off of the golden bird.-this could have been used as a magical pen that scribed the book in the first place. 2. the fox which was that of the princess brother that had been cursed.–What if this man was one of the first curses that the EQ enacted, while practicing? Perhaps she could have been practicing on one of her childhood friends or maybe the man was a lover that she was supposed to wed. But her mother had a different plan for her(marrying Snows dad, the king) and turned this lover into a fox. [