For the many different versions of Lovers of the Bell Tower, during his weekly Saturday lessons Shard had already learned a lot from Dorothy and Lecia. The piece being performed this time by the Golden Dawn Opera Group was closer to the earliest version of this fairy tale, as recorded in Ancient Script unearthed from the Fifth Era.
The earliest versions of fairy tales mostly had nothing to do with descriptions like "innocent and kind." On the contrary, they were extremely realistic and even carried some horror elements. Apparently, the young Witches of the Fifth Era were believed to need exposure to such stories from childhood.
Though such stories are no longer suitable for children in the present Sixth Era, they are indeed very suitable for adults.
