"This is more important than that!" By now, surely the princess was used to such scolding; and this was even more important than that. The knight composed herself, and continued.

"The curse on you wasn't just your punishment," she told the princess, as if she knew all about it. "It was because when the princess awakens, calamity will befall this land."

She turned to face the one she was indirectly naming as its source. "Why not sleep peacefully instead?"