Give me a hand!

A long time ago, in a land far away, a very evil queen lived to torture her people. She would travel far and wide to gather "new subjects". After she paid peddlers and countrymen for the people who would serve her, she would take their hand as a reminder to them of who they belonged to. Her subjects were scared and had to work hard. All of them lived feeling less than and disgraced because of their disability. People on the streets would mock them as they went on errands for their master, but they still had to complete their tasks or they would be beaten. They lived like this for many years and longed for a time when they would be free. Some of the town's folk started feeling sorry for the subjects and wished they knew a way to free them from their servitude, but they didn't know how to fool the queen and were fearful of her too because she had a great deal of power in the community. The subjects were angry in their hearts and secretly despised the queen and envied her two hands. They did not like the town's folk very much either because they also had two hands and this reminded them that they were always under the control of the queen. Many more years passed until one of the town's folk could take it no longer and devised a secret plan to try to save the subjects. He knew it was a long shot and would take a long time to convince the other town's folk and be secretive enough to have the plan work. He organized secret meetings with others who he knew hated the treatment of the subjects too. They had to be extra careful because the queen had eyes everywhere and would readily kill anyone who would try to oppose her. It took several years and many failed attempts, but finally a plan was devised. They had dug a tunnel under the great mountain that lead to a free land. The free land was full of people who opposed the queen and had a powerful King who was not afraid of her. When he heard of the town's men building the tunnel, he agreed to allow the subjects to come and build a new life in his kingdom. Over time, the town's folk were able to sneak out several subjects, but this left the queen very angry. She raged at the loss of each one. She would then have the remaining beaten as punishment for the crimes of the others. After several losses, the queen made the decision that she was not going to be mocked. She knew that if she allowed this to continue, her subjects would stop fearing her and try to leave too. She began to derive a plan to take down the king. Many days later, after much preparation and training, the queen gave the marching orders to her subjects with threats of the death and torture of their children if they failed. They were to go to battle against the king in the quiet hours of the night. After the final lights of the castle were extinguished and the guards were on the final watch and heavy eyed, the subjects were to storm the main gate. The queen led the charge, using her secret magic to destroy the gate and allow her subjects to enter unhindered. Unbeknownst to the queen though, there had been a secret informer in her midst. The king was prepared for her attack and had quietly evacuated all of his residents. They had all gone and hid in the tunnels of the mountain and waited for her army to pass. Then they raced to the Queens Castle to free the elders and children who has been left behind. Meanwhile, the king had set a trap for the evil queen. As she barged into the main hall, a large cage dropped down, trapping her inside. The subjects, seeing that their captor was herself trapped gave loud cheers at the realization that they were free at last from her tyranny. Knowing that the king had powers beyond hers and realizing her demise was inevitable if she remained, the queen did a disappearing spell and went into hiding. The king then allowed the subjects to integrate into his society and made accommodations for them due to their only having one hand. The invisible queen was so angry about this, that she worked tirelessly to come up with a secret plan. It would take several years to unfold completely, but if she was very patient, she would have her way again. Her goal was to turn people away from them. She would whisper to the town's folk regularly to put ideas in their heads about the special treatment they received, their inability to actually do the same things because of their lack of a hand, and all the resources that were being taken way from the people who were part of the kingdom originally. Some of the town's folk listened to these things and became very angry. They didn't like subjects and called them "Handy's" to remind them of their past. The queen then encouraged some of them to pretend to like the Handy's. As generations passed, they encouraged them to tie one hand behind their back as a reminder of all they had been through years ago. They reminded them so often that even as years dwindled away and all who lived during that time had died, they still felt oppressed. Now there were still town's folk who were vocal about their dislike for the Handy's and openly discussed all they had ruined in the kingdom. The secretive town's folk decided to enrage them even more be deciding to tie their own right hand behind their backs and telling other townsfolk that they should do likewise as a show of solidarity with the Handy's. This dubbed them the name Lefty's. Many followed suit and believed they were actually helping the Handy's to get over their pain. The openly angry town's folk fired back with even more angry words and wanted to kick them out of the Kings land. There was another group who refused to tie their hands. They loved the subjects and wanted to help them, but didn't think tying there own hand was the answer. They thought it was a silly idea. They thought the Handy's should just untie their hand and do like all the other town's folk. They actually thought the Handy's should refuse to answer to that name. They openly rejected the whispering of the queen and wanted the subjects to just call themselves town's folk. Many did decide to do that, but some of the Handy's thought that meant they were discounting all they had been through and turning their back on their history. Over time, this group started being called Righty's, first because they believed they were right in their claim and second because they could still use their right hand freely. The subjects who untied their hands also became Righty's because you couldn't tell them apart from the original town's folk. Unfortunately, this meant that it was easy to also mistake the town's folk who openly hated the subjects because they also had the use of both hands. The secret leaders of the Lefty's used these things to their full advantage. They spread rumors about what the Righty's really thought of the Handy's. They came up with all kinds of evil reasons why the Righty's didn't want to tie their hands. They even went so far as to say that any town's folk who refuse to tie their own hand was openly against them and obviously hated them just as much as the group who was open about their dislike. They talked often about how the Righty's talk a good talk, but don't actually believe what they say. They twisted their words to the Handy's so that most truly believed that the Righty's were all the same and wanted to keep them in bondage. The rights who used to be Handy's tried to tell them to untie their hands and try life like that, but they only saw a Righty who they believed hated them. Over many years, this became worse and worse until the Righty's were unable to petition the Handy's to believe their claims anymore. They had been mocked into silence. Meanwhile, the Lefty's either believed they were doing good by living in bondage or were doing the queens bidding; and the Handy's were angry and stuck. The invisible queen smiled with delight when this turn of events finally took place. Her plan had finally come to fruition. Not only did her original subjects live in despair and bondage, but so did everyone else.