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(and isn't this like a fairy tale?)

She visited a sorceress in the mountains, a terrible beauty, powerful and cunning.
She fell to her knees, pleading to become a chameleon for the rest of her days, so she could hide and be free of the pain she so keenly felt.

But the sorceress would not do this, she refused and instead offered her invisibility by day, but at night she would live as she always had before. She warned her that this came with a price and that her life was forfeit if she could not break her own enchantment before the rope binding them came loose.

Now the rope looked rather strong to the girl, and being invisible seemed like it would be a fair way to avoid the cruelties she was already so tired of facing. And how could she know that these were not just ropes, and this was no ordinary enchantment?

The sorceress smiled at her good fortune, because this enchantment was a binding of fate, and she felt the strands tightening around them.

One last thing she mentioned, the final catch, as it were. I do not know how the enchantment will break, that is within your heart, and until you discover it for yourself you cannot break this tie.

And the girl naive as ever smiled and nodded.She could be invisible, and she didn't think that the rope would break for a very long time. And all of these enchantments they were undone by true love’s first kiss anyway, it was no great mystery to her. Someday she would find her true love and the enchantment would be undone.

And so it was done, the ropes of fate binding sorceress and woman were tied, and left to the elements.

Because with every trial and hardship she would face the rope would break a little more, for every time she lost hope, for every word she believed about herself the rope would unwind.

And there were many trials to face. And how could she know that to undo the binds of fate was to accept herself as she was?

And for every kiss she would lose after her life was forfeit, every laugh and smile, every hour of every day that this woman would lose would belong to this sorceress.

And how powerful those things were.

And the next morning she awoke to the smell of the forest air, lying in a clearing, she stood up and walked to a spring. But upon arriving there she realized that she could no longer see herself. And she got her wish. But now she was invisible, even to herself. So maybe the price was too high after all. Because this was not what she wanted. But the sorceress was nowhere to be found.

And for the first time she let down her guard and she wept for the loss of herself.

(and doesn't this sound like a fairy tale)