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The Opera Doll
A young girl she was then, just 8 years old. Her dad worked in an opera house and would often bring her with him. She'd wander the halls of the opera house for hours, talking to the ghosts and working with the magic hidden in the walls. Her hair became silver when she was down there, not far from her platinum blond curls. While she was visiting the ghosts, and old lady soprano had found a stuffed rabbit in a chest and lain it on top of a high shelf, how the girl wanted it for her own, and the ancient ghosts would tease her with their costumes and masks of how the rabbit was only destined for those who could reach it. They were evil ghosts.
She wore a mask as well when she was with the ghosts and the magical creatures in the opera house basement. The Faeries permantly made the mask apart of the girl's spirit also with her red eyes that were a light with the blood of those ghosts and creatures that hid in the rafters. The Fae wanted to give her wings, but the ghosts liked her better as a pretty little girl with her silver curls and pale face. This angered the faeries whom wanted to make her one of them, an immortal, not a spirit. The Ghosts and the Faeries then decided that if she could reach the Stuffed Rabbit on the shelf, that would decide her fate. If she could scale the 20 foot shelves without falling and dying she would become a fae, if she died she would join the spirit world.
The girl was confused and was just happy the way she was, but she wanted that rabbit. Greed was her downfall. So, she climbed slowly up the shelves, constantly knocking something down, barely losing her grip, stopping for a breath, sneezing from the dust, and looking below to her audience of Spirits and Faeries, and scowled at their greed, but not recognising her own.
She was just feet below her destination when she slipped. Holding on with two hands she screamed and the Ghosts cheered for her to fall and the Fae hissed for her to live. Tears streamed down her face in fear in disgust when she realized that the stuffed animal was not worth it. Her life was her own, which was a very intellectual prospect for an 8 year old.
She hooked her feet onto the shelf and kicked a box out of her way and crawled in the shelf and sat there, huddling in the darkness feeling afraid and stupid. She tried to pull of her mask to no avail and wripped at her silver hair, pulling curls out in chunks, she was about to claw out her eyes when a voice called. "It's a Draw." and she blinked through painful tears to listen:
"As Fae spoke, If she reached the animal and sucessfully retrieved it, she would become a faerie. If she perished before she reached the animal, she would become one of the Spirit world. But..." There was an outcry. "HOWEVER," Silence pursued,"... She has done neither, so she will be granted immortality and the magic of the Fae and the beauty and silence of the Spirits. Also.." The ghost flew who spoke flew past her view and upwards, to return to face her with the stuffed rabbit,"She will recieve this."
The Girl blinked suddenly through her sore eyes and realized how much pain she was in from pulling at her mask and hair and it took her a minute to remember how to move her arms. She accepted the animal and smiled.
She lived in the Opera house forever, long after her parents and their grandchildren had died. She carries their memory in a hear shaped box. Mostly anyone who sees her calls her the The Opera Doll, for she is so small and lives in an Opera house. The Faries and the Ghosts are under her rule.
The Moral of the story is, don't be greedy.
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