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drylic · 6 years ago

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💥 Try to calm my muse during an overwhelming emotional moment

“ Shh… It’ll be okay. “ As gentle as he could be, Marc whispered to his sobbing sister. Another nightmare, another fragmented memory of their past that she could not grasp an understanding of. All he could do was be here, a shoulder to cry on that tended to her wounds and eased her down from this roller coaster that her subconscious took her on.

“ How about I tell you a story, Morgan? Something to distract you. “ Fairy tales always helped pull her thoughts from their despicable past. Resting an arm around her, Marc brought Morgan to his shoulder and rested his head atop of her own. Now, what type of story would he give today? He’d told the one about a Princess and the Pea before… What about the Frog Prince? Perhaps something more lighthearted was due.. “ Have I told you the one about the Giants and the Beanstalk? “ His question had been followed by a breathy chuckle, it was such a wild and silly story…

His fingers gingerly slipped between her locks, a hope that his gentle strokes would ease her alongside his childish story. “ So… Up in the heavens is where the giants live. There’s a tale that they breed golden geese, that lay golden eggs. “ Pausing, Marc glanced in her direction and pressed the back of his hand against her cheek, wiping any further tears from his dearest sisters face. “ A boy, let’s call him… Donnel. Well, Donnel as his parents were struggling to get by, and so Donnel went to the market with the family’s cow. He was supposed to sell her so that his parents could buy food. Silly Donnel… He sold the cow to a rather eccentric man, named um… He-Henry! “ It always became more fun, to incorporate the other members of the shepards in these fairytales.

“ Well, Henry here sold Donnel a bag of ‘magical beans’ that were stated to go up into the heavens, so that Donnel could get a golden goose that would lay golden eggs. Of course, Donnel was naive enough to believe the strange man! Firm in his thoughts that what he was doing was good for his family, Donnel skipped home all too ecstatically. His parents, upon finding out were angered. They told Donnel to take the beans back and sell the cow for money! In a fit the heated argument, the beans were tossed astray and emptied from the bag. “

Marc paused once again, this time to adjust himself. Morgan seemed to have calmed down somewhat, enough that he could fully tell this tale with his own form of magical prowess. Moving to stand in the center of the tent, Marc pretended to drop a bean to the ground. “ Donnel wasn’t allowed to sleep in the house that night, so instead he slept beside his fallen beans… By morning, he was so surprised by his discovery…! “ Exaggerating this, Marc quietly cast a spell to simulate smoke, and when it dispersed Morgan would come to find a ‘miniature’ beanstalk held up where the imaginary bean had been dropped. A figurine of a boy laid on the top leaf of the stalk. “ He was all the way up in the clouds! It was amazing, until the stalk started to shake. “ His feet loudly stomped to the ground, causing the stalk to sway left and right a bit. “ Out of fear for his own life, Donnel hurriedly climbed to the top and discovered that he could walk on the clouds, here! So, he proudly says to himself; ‘ I knew it! I knew that, that mysterious man was telling the truth! ‘ As he wanders the cloudy lands, he finds a castle! “

An other spell was cast, this time a translucent castle floated beside the stalk. “ When he reached the castle, that was when Donnel finally saw the Giants! Not only that, but he could hear the honks of geese nearby. As he was so small, Donnel did his best to sneak around the giants… It was terrifying of course! If they saw him, he could be squished just like a bug! It took some time, but he managed to find the coop that the geese were held in. Everything that Henry has told him was true, down to the very last detail! These geese were indeed gold, and they did indeed lay golden eggs! Now; the problem that came next was figuring out how to steal one, and get it back home… Donnel wasn’t the best at planning, but he had come so far now, he couldn’t leave empty-handed. “ Once again, he simulated the stomping that the giants did as they walked.

“ Alas, the giants were on their way! “ More stomping, it grew louder and more fierce to put emphasis on how close they were. “ Quickly, Donnel hid in the back of the coop, where he discovered a baby golden goose. It would be perfect! Although it could not produce eggs just yet, it would be small and easy enough to take off with and his family would be rich for years to come! Scooping the goose up, Donnel wrapped it in his tunic. Now, he just had to wait for the Giants to leave… Ohoho, but they could tell something was amiss as they fed their geese. The golden geese were not focused on their food, but at something in the back of the coop. A massive hand stuck itself inside of the coop, leaving Donnel to nearly scream out in fear. He backed himself up further, pressing himself as far against the wall of the coop as he could… “

The story paused as Marc had glanced over at the entrance to Morgan’s tent. It had appeared he had drawn a crowd with his story, a few of the other shepards watching from the open flaps. “ S-So, when the Giant found nothing, due to Donnel hiding out, they shrugged it off and left and so Donnel was able to escape with the baby goose. Once he reached the bottom of the beanstalk, Donnel chopped it down and showed his parents the goose. The end. “

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