No Dumb Questions: Fantasy

[penthius]

We all say that there's no such thing as a dumb question, and we all know that's a lie. So when I say that the thing you really noticed about Ella was that she never asked a dumb question, you can get a good idea of how extraordinary that was. It was maybe the first thing that you'd really notice about Ella. Not because it was so readily apparent, but because in all other respects she was--not unnoticeable, because that is noticeable in its own way, too, but simply not particularly noticeable. She had nice-enough hair, and nice-enough eyes, and you might think in passing that you wouldn't mind if your son brought a girl like that home, but you didn't really expect him to. There was nothing about her that really stuck out, either for the good or for the bad. She did not seem particularly talented or skilled or clever. She was not particularly kind-hearted or mean-spirited. She was not startlingly beautiful or stunningly ugly. She just was. You expected her to go through life at a normal speed and end up in a normal place, probably marrying late because she had not the beauty, wealth, or vivid personality that would draw an early match, but you did expect her to eventually settle down with a nice, working-class person who would help raise a host of well-behaved children who always came back to visit for the holidays and perhaps sent home a bit of their pay in each weekly letter. None of us expected her to become a queen.

Inspiration: A Marketplace Money podcast talking about how there were no bad questions.
Story potential: High.
Notes: I do like this quite a bit. Nice hero's quest, and why don't we get any (actually Clever) Clever Elsa stories, eh?