Long before the Pied Piper was known for taking towns children away, he was known for connecting two lovers whom were separated by a strong and dangerous river of stars that we call the Northern Lights. It all began with the people of the heavens and their king. The king and his wife had a beautiful daughter. So beautiful that she made the other star people jealous. She was truly beautiful inside and out. The princess was in charge of weaving the sky silks. Sky silks are important because that is what we Earth people see when we look at the night sky. The star princess sang softly when she weaved. So softly that only the silks could hear her. One day, one of the cattle herders managed to wander into the castle with his ox. The star princess noticed that he too sang quietly while he worked. The two immediately came to like one another. The Cattle herder said to the princess, How could we live so close all this time but never meet before. I have longed for company and it must be the heavens that showed you the way to me. Exclaimed the princess. In their excitement of new found love they forget about their work while they were talking that night. While they were learning about each others lives the ox had begun to eat the sky silk and created a hole in the sky. This was bad for the heaven kingdom because the people down on Earth would look to the sky and be sad to see no stars in the sky. The king in his hast declared, You my daughter have neglected your work and ignored responsibility, that is not how royalty is to behave! You and the herder are to be separated to opposite sides of the kingdom so neither of you will deny your responsibilities EVER again! . Please father do not do this to me, to us. We just found each other. The princess cried. Her tears did not change the kings mind, with quick swoosh of his wand a treacherous river of stars and light formed that is known as the Northern Lights. The princess had grown to love the cat