George the Greytown Wizard

Her father replied in a soothing tone, “I am sure itʼs a simple case of overwork.
When she gets enough sleep, she will wake up and life will return to normal.”
But Rhiannonʼs mother was not comforted. When the sleep continued for some
days, Rhiannonʼs mother cried, “Weʼll have to call in the doctors. Oh dear!
Usually by the time they come itʼs too late and the patient is beyond their help.”
“Thatʼs not the right attitude,” Rhiannonʼs father said. “Donʼt be pessimistic.
As they say, ‘a stitch in time saves nine’, or was it ‘while there’s life there’s
hope’. No that wasn’t it. I know “your glass is half empty not half full’, no it’d
be the other way round.”
“Oh shut up old man,” his wife cried. “Iʼm not interested in what they say! I just
want Rhiannon to wake up!” And she wept into her apron.
Anyway her parents called in the doctors. One by one they tried to wake
Rhiannon up, but without success. They tutt, tutt, tutted amongst themselves
and unanimously claimed that Rhiannon had the sleeping sickness because
she had worn herself out by doing too much drawing. Her parents sadly
thought that perhaps they were right and that Rhiannon was destined to remain
a sleeping princess, that is a least until some prince turned up to do his thing.
After the failure of conventional medicine, Rhiannonʼs parents started to think
that there might be another way to awake the sleeping Rhiannon. “Perhaps
we need a magic spell to wake her,” they suggested to each other. “You never
know,” they reassured each other, “that perhaps a way-out alternatives might
just do the trick and wake her up.” They heard that George had returned, so
they decided to give him a try.
All the colours in Wannabe faded back to the old shades of grey. The
townspeople became very depressed again. Nobody laughed or smiled any
more, not even the smallest child. Meanwhile Rhiannon slept on.
the grey curse cure
When George arrived at Rhiannonʼs little house, he looked down on the
sleeping Rhiannon, wondering if he would be able to wake up the sleeping girl.
He was still a very inexperienced wizard, and by now he was a very nervous
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