Editing Tino Tonitini Hear A Monster Calls (section)

====The first story====
An old king who's lost his entire family save a young grandson and remarries a beautiful young woman. He dies before the young prince has come of age, and many believe she poisoned the king. Not wanting to hand the kingdom over to the prince in a year, she plots to marry the prince and remain queen.
The prince, who is in a popular relationship with a farm girl, runs away with her. They stop and sleep under a yew tree (the monster), but in the morning he finds the young woman murdered.
He tells the villagers that the queen, a witch, must have done it, and they rally to overthrow the queen. At this point, the monster awakes and joins the mob.
Enraged, the commoners rally around the prince to storm the castle, and the monster follows.
Before the commoners can get to the queen, the monster arrives to snatch her from the fire and carry her away to a far off land where she lives out the rest of her life in peace.
Though she was indeed a witch, she did not kill the girl or the old king. The prince had murdered the girl under the yew tree in order to inspire his people to back him into overthrowing the queen.