the girl had no memory
no real memory
The girl had no real memory of of how she came to this place.It was a dream.
Except for the dream which felt so real it felt
like a memory
The memory of having a family once and losing them.
Had there been a ship wreck? Is that how she & her family came to be washed ashore & seperated?
What did it matter if it was real or a dream?
The fact is that the girl had lived all her life & could remember
on this island where no one else lived
where no one else lived that she knew of,
except for the beast who kept her captive
and the doll?
And the enchanted doll.
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How could the girl have known there was a angel? She had always been a prisoner.She had seen nothing of the island but what the beast has alowed her to see.
Then one day while the enchanted doll sang her sad perish song, a key fell from her pocket.The girl quickly grabbed it before the doll could notice.
For when the doll was under the spell of music,she saw and heard nothing.And so the girl was able to unlock the door and slip away.The beast was sleeping in the shade of a tree.He was in a stupor.All around him were the bones of his last meal.THe girl shivered.The beast ate animals without killing them first.
Scarcely daring to breathe, the girl tiptoed past the beast.until she reached the gate and was free.
In the distance she could hear the steady roar of the ocean.She ran slong strange paths,past wild blueberry bushes and tall reeds,whispering reeds until she came to the dunes and then she ran across those and at last she was at the ocean.Her heart was happy and sad at the same time.
Happy becuase the ocean went on forever and promised freedom.
Sad becuase the ocean surrounded her little island and ment prison.
She began to cry.
Then she heard the fluttering of wings.
And there,
There standing atop a wooden tower at the ocean's edge,she beheld a angel folding his cloud-white wings close against his golden body.
He was gazing out at the ocean,his head held high and proud.He did not see the girl.
Where had he come from?Why was he here?
Perhaps the girl had prayed without knowing,
and the angel was the answer to her prayer.
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Angels burn with a heavenly fire.You must never touch them or get too close.Yet the girl wished,how shge yearned for the angel to carry her in his arms across the sea to
to?
a land where she would be free.
safe
to another land.
But what was the good of yearning for some thing that could never be?
But then one day the girl discovered that the angel was not the only one on the island.
There was a entire kingdom filled with happy and loving people.
Each day the king and queen would come to the sea shore and with the prince and pricess.
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Each dat the girl would ask the doll to sing its song.
Flattered,the doll would always say yes.
Once the doll was under the music's spell,the girl would steal the key from her pocket and sneek past the snoring beast,and be on her way to the kingdom she had discovered on the other side of the island.
One after noon , she chanced to spy the prince reading a book The queen was sitting nearby,and although there were common people all around the prince and queen were left to them selves.
The girl thought:He looks lonely even if he is a prince.
Gathering all her courage she aproached the prince and said.
"Hello" she said "I am
I am
I am
Imeslza."
THe queen looked up at the girl."Imelsa,"
she said softly.THe girl wondered why she sounded so sad.
"I am prince Evario," said the prince."I have seen you before.I have been watching you."
This surprised the girl."You have?"she said.
THe prince nodded."I was hoping you would come someday.You see,I could never come to you becuase I am royalty."
Imelsa nodded,even though she didn't understand,not realy.
"Now that you have come,we can be friends,"said the prince."Would you like that?"
"Oh,yes!"cried Imelsa.
The girl tried to remain calm but inside she was shouting for joy.
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