"Long, long ago, there lived a princess who loved all living things. Sweet and energetic, she brought baskets of food to feed the orphans, and play with them. Then one day in their frolicking they found a stash of beautiful red stones. The princess loved them because they shone with a pink inner light as if alive, and she made ruby necklaces for all the children. When one of the children fell and scraped his knee, the princess went to tend to him but saw the wound healing right before her eyes, and the light in the red stone growing dim. And she realized that the stones could heal. Not wanting anyone to suffer from wound or sickness, she brought the gift of healing to the sick and injured. And she found that she alone had blood that could bring the light back into the rubies, to heal with