christened her Polar because she was so very pale. She promised that one day she would be back.
5 th Wish - The art of understanding
When Pixie got back and saw Olive, she explained to her what had happened and how the alien called Polar seemed to understand her more than the fairies where she lived and she couldn’t even speak her language.
Olive decided that everyone should adopt the art of understanding. Maybe if more people listened and tried to understand, there wouldn’t be so much trouble in the world.
She and Pixie made a circle of silver twigs and placed some alien pieces of rock within it.
Olive chanted ‘‘calling Priscilla, calling Priscilla.’’
In a flash of a fairy wing flap, Priscilla appeared.
‘‘Yes my fairy child, have you chosen another fairy wish?’’
Olive said that she wanted everyone to have the art of understanding and not to judge a book by its cover.
‘‘I wish it’’ she said.
Priscilla waved her fairy wand. Aqua fairy dust flew over the fairy land and the wish was granted. In the future, fairies would think before they judged and understand that we are all different.
CHAPTER 10
THE HOMELESS FAIRY - SPERANZA
Olive had the most beautiful voice that had ever existed in the fairy olive fields or the fairy forest for that matter. It was melodic and enchanting.
When she sung, it echoed all over the land and made everyone shiver with excitement at the sheer beauty and depth of her voice. It literally moved the earth, the fairies felt that they were so very glad to be alive. Every morning at 8.00am promptly she would sing to awaken all the fairies and put them in an uplifting mood that would carry them through the day.
On one particular day, a middle-aged fairy lay sheltering by an olive tree. He slept in just a fairy cardboard box with a couple of very worn blankets over him. This was not the time to be sleeping outside, the evenings had become very chilly.
He could hear this melodious voice in the distance far, far away and thought to himself ‘I may not have been granted a lot in my later years but, I too can sing…….’
His name was Speranza which means ‘Hope’ in English. He always felt that he lived a life that was full of hope and longing. In his early years, he was a teacher of the arts. He had two fairy children and the most beautiful fairy wife you could imagine. He was envied by everyone.
‘How quickly one’s life can change’ he thought to himself.
The time that changed his life all happened one dark and dismal night five years back when the worst storm hit the fairy olive trees ever to be known in history. It destroyed his life, after that he just gave up.
His family was washed away by the currents. He did all he could to try and save them but, all to no avail. He was devastated. Without them he felt he had nothing to live for. He couldn’t even bring himself to rebuild his home in another olive tree grove because everything was too painful for him. He held so many memories of that fateful night in his brain.
This particular morning he was drawn to the voice that echoed throughout the land. He decided he would go on an adventure and find where this special voice was coming from. He was quite weak as he only lived on the fruits of the land. To be honest, he knew it himself that it was time he pulled himself together and moved forward with his life. He had memories that were so strong and powerful, no-one could take those away from him, not even an act of God. For a time, he had dismissed God because surely if one existed, he would have seen it in his wisdom to save his family, he prayed hard enough every day.
Speranza decided to abandon his cardboard box which had been his home for the last five years and follow the voice. He had nothing
5 th Wish - The art of understanding
When Pixie got back and saw Olive, she explained to her what had happened and how the alien called Polar seemed to understand her more than the fairies where she lived and she couldn’t even speak her language.
Olive decided that everyone should adopt the art of understanding. Maybe if more people listened and tried to understand, there wouldn’t be so much trouble in the world.
She and Pixie made a circle of silver twigs and placed some alien pieces of rock within it.
Olive chanted ‘‘calling Priscilla, calling Priscilla.’’
In a flash of a fairy wing flap, Priscilla appeared.
‘‘Yes my fairy child, have you chosen another fairy wish?’’
Olive said that she wanted everyone to have the art of understanding and not to judge a book by its cover.
‘‘I wish it’’ she said.
Priscilla waved her fairy wand. Aqua fairy dust flew over the fairy land and the wish was granted. In the future, fairies would think before they judged and understand that we are all different.
CHAPTER 10
THE HOMELESS FAIRY - SPERANZA
Olive had the most beautiful voice that had ever existed in the fairy olive fields or the fairy forest for that matter. It was melodic and enchanting.
When she sung, it echoed all over the land and made everyone shiver with excitement at the sheer beauty and depth of her voice. It literally moved the earth, the fairies felt that they were so very glad to be alive. Every morning at 8.00am promptly she would sing to awaken all the fairies and put them in an uplifting mood that would carry them through the day.
On one particular day, a middle-aged fairy lay sheltering by an olive tree. He slept in just a fairy cardboard box with a couple of very worn blankets over him. This was not the time to be sleeping outside, the evenings had become very chilly.
He could hear this melodious voice in the distance far, far away and thought to himself ‘I may not have been granted a lot in my later years but, I too can sing…….’
His name was Speranza which means ‘Hope’ in English. He always felt that he lived a life that was full of hope and longing. In his early years, he was a teacher of the arts. He had two fairy children and the most beautiful fairy wife you could imagine. He was envied by everyone.
‘How quickly one’s life can change’ he thought to himself.
The time that changed his life all happened one dark and dismal night five years back when the worst storm hit the fairy olive trees ever to be known in history. It destroyed his life, after that he just gave up.
His family was washed away by the currents. He did all he could to try and save them but, all to no avail. He was devastated. Without them he felt he had nothing to live for. He couldn’t even bring himself to rebuild his home in another olive tree grove because everything was too painful for him. He held so many memories of that fateful night in his brain.
This particular morning he was drawn to the voice that echoed throughout the land. He decided he would go on an adventure and find where this special voice was coming from. He was quite weak as he only lived on the fruits of the land. To be honest, he knew it himself that it was time he pulled himself together and moved forward with his life. He had memories that were so strong and powerful, no-one could take those away from him, not even an act of God. For a time, he had dismissed God because surely if one existed, he would have seen it in his wisdom to save his family, he prayed hard enough every day.
Speranza decided to abandon his cardboard box which had been his home for the last five years and follow the voice. He had nothing
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