As beautiful as a doll

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As beautiful as a doll

Once upon a time, there lived a girl named Cara who was obsessed with her own beauty. With her eyes like emeralds, with golden hair and rosy cheeks, everyone adored her…. But she was never satisfied with her appearance, she wished that she would be as beautiful as the Bisque dolls being sold in shops.
During the time that she lived, there was a rumour about an elegant magician that lived in the next town who would grant your wish for a price. As soon as it reached Cara’s ears, she was eager to meet this certain magician.
As she prepared for her trip, she fantasized about her wish to be ‘Truly beautiful’.
“Oh great magician. Please turn me into as beautiful as a doll.”

These words kept playing over and over in her mind as she had a wide grin on her face.

Once she set foot in town, she asked for directions to the Magician’s place. It took her all day to arrive at her destination.
A small shop stood in front of her, moss was everywhere and the bricks were a bit worn out making it look like it was going to fall apart any minute.
But she brushed it off thinking about how her wish will finally come true.

Before she knocked on the door, she took out a mirror from her purse to fix her messy hair and smudged makeup. When she was done, she knocked on the door.
“Hello? Great magician please let me in. I have but a wish to make”
The door opened and she was greeted by a slender figure that emerged from the shadows. For a moment, fear pierced through Cara’s mind.
The slender figure turned on the lights to reveal a cloaked figure with a mask. Cara breathed a sigh of relief that it wasn’t some kind of boogeyman that wanted to drag her to the depths of hell.

“Come in Cara, I have been waiting to grant your wish.”
Said in a gentle voice, Cara was shocked about how the magician knew her name.
“Well he IS a magician, after all.” she thought.
She entered the shop in excitement and couldn’t wait to give her request.

She let her emotions get the best of her and blurted out without skipping a beat:
“Oh great magician, please turn me into a doll!”
She didn’t even think about how she delivered her wish, all she thought about was how beautiful she was going to be.

“What kind of doll?”
“Like the popular Bisque dolls being sold in shops!”
“Are you sure?”
“Yes!”
The magician took out his wand from a little box that seemed to have been passed down through decades.

Still, Cara was only thinking about her own appearance and how she would be praised even more.

“The price of your wish shall be your voice”
Cara was a bit shocked when she heard of that, but she was willing to give up anything for the sake of beauty.
“I shall give you my voice for I can write my heart out on paper.”
This scenario reminded Cara of the Little Mermaid’s story, she always wondered why Ariel didn’t just write on paper to communicate with her charming prince.

And without any delay, the magician waved his wand and light that sparkled like glitter came out of it. Cara watched with enthusiasm and hopped like a bunny.
She closed her eyes fantasizing about her new appearance.

“Cara! Take a look at the mirror and see how beautiful you are.”
She slowly opened her eyes while reaching out for her mirror that she kept in her purse.

“With your emerald green eyes, golden hair and rosy cheeks, those were the perfect elements for a doll! That even a newborn fawn would recognize your beauty!”  The magician proclaimed as Cara looked in the mirror with her eyes opened wide.

She wanted to let out a blood curdling shriek but she couldn’t because she had given her voice to the Magician.
“YOU WITCH! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME?” Cara thought with rage filling her heart.

She ran out through the door the magician forgot to close and headed out to the streets. Every living being she passed by let out a scream.
“A moving doll! It must be possessed by a demon!”
The townspeople screamed, and before Cara knew it, the situation had become a witch hunt.
What really hurt Cara the most was the cries of children. She loved children so much that even if they threw mud at her she wouldn’t raise her voice. She then thought about how much her relatives, whom she loved dearly, would come to despise her.

Eventually, the townspeople caught Cara the doll for she couldn’t run any further due to her physique being that of a doll. She was caught in a bind and brought to the town center. Cara couldn’t explain her situation to the people that were ready to burn her alive. She tried to ‘talk’ in hopes that there would be a person that could read her mouth.
But the townspeople only looked at the talking doll with disgust and fear.

She was then tied to a pole, readily to be executed like a witch in Medieval times. A torch was thrown at the pile of flammable items that surrounded Cara. The scorching heat burned her clothes and melted her face. The people claim to have seen the doll making a screaming face.

The end

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