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"I don't need a kingdom," she said. "I need a home."

"You wanted a prince with a gentle heart and a strong sword," the king said to Tamuna. "This boy has no sword. But his heart... his heart is a forge. And a forge builds kingdoms." swan princess qartulad

"I have no army," Gela said. "I have only my hammer and my two hands." "I don't need a kingdom," she said

"That is enough," Tamuna whispered, and for the first time, she smiled. Gela climbed Kazbek with no weapon but his blacksmith’s hammer and a rope woven from horsehair. He faced the fire-bird—a creature of living flame—not by fighting it, but by singing the old harvest song his grandmother taught him. The fire-bird, remembering a time before it was enchanted, wept hot tears of obsidian and fell back to sleep. Gela took the Green Key. But his heart

"To break the curse," she said, "someone who loves me not for my crown must find the Mtsvane Nuri —the Green Key of the Sun. It lies in Rothgar’s tower on the peak of Mount Kazbek, guarded by a sleeping fire-bird. And he must do it before the third moonrise."