The Hollow Lesson
/While walking home Princess Lida meets up with a mystical gypsy with an hollow message
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Months passed, putting gothic candy distribution as a distant memory, along with wintry festive celebrations which positively graced the small community recently, where Paulie’s humble affluent family neighbored royal counterparts, allowing the classroom to be the common meeting place.
During one of the worst cold snap periods, encouraging academic knowledge completion, Princess Lida adjusted fashionably woven gloves, walking the scholastic designated path, featuring a sideline snow audience.
Briskly moving, the monarch youthful representative, came to a startling stop, peering through the timber, seeing the icy pond, a summertime local recreation centerpiece. Deathly quiet, displaying its frozen stillness landscape, once awarded perfect grades the area seemed the honorable place a magical intuition should happen, instigating Princess Lida ‘take a closer look, study the scene’.
Unlike numerous other times, she trekked through wilderness settings the growing birthright leader, noticed a change, featuring a prop containing maturing tidings, strategically placed, upon a rock near their watering hole.
Curiosity discovered occupation, and next thing Princess Lida realized, an investigation commenced as she ventured down, conquering a small embankment before confronting an orange globular shape object, quietly pondering the world, lost in the new year’s initial season.
“Look at the shapes, your royal highness,” a voice suggested, shaking the lone hiking commuter’s trust, “its face is jagged, Picasso style, showing anger not kindness.”
“What about the inside?” Princess Lida inquired.
“I pulled everything out, made it hollow, nothing in there, just stringy fibrous strands filled with pulp,”
“Who are you?”
“Katrina Twicker, KT, for short,” an elderly lady emerged. “I am a next-door gypsy presenting a lesson for you to learn.”
“Isn’t it a little late or early for pumpkin interpretation?”
“It is always time to enjoy a Pumpkin’s true message!” KT exclaimed.
“And what is that?”
“My dear Princess, look at me today,”
“Filled with wisdom?” Princess Lida’s elder respect actions naturally were revealed.
“Oh, you're very kind,” KT chuckled, “I am ugly, due to being mad, played games with a royal and got a card that put me over. If I listened and embraced the Pumpkin social contribution, maybe my beauty would not have left me like a deadbeat husband.”
“Deadbeat?”
“Preserve your brain intact, keep thinking,” KT advised, “then your smile will always be honest and luring.”
Suddenly, the character disappeared, mist replacing the being, hinting Princess Lida ‘resume homeward bound journey’.
While sitting by the fire, Princess Lida heard rummaging, and her father, the King materialized, kitchen fingerprints easily visible.
“Where did this delicious apple pie come from?”
“Carved up the devil’s fruit, Daddy,” Princess Lida replied watching the flames dance, “pumpkin version lost its mind, and I did not want you to think about sinning.”
By Marc OBrien
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