Custom Common Experiment #84
Just My Imagination
Two of six sparkling eyes blinked open as the sweet sound of childish singing reached his ears. The "creation" had been waiting for her to arrive all morning. At last he was strong enough to greet his mistress and pleased to be able to do so. With a lazy flick his two tails he rose, stretched his stiff muscles and slunk off in search of the song's source.
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Hunter Lynn was a towheaded child of about eight. She was cute in the generic way that many children are at that age, with freckles dusting her upturned nose and large, hazel eyes. As the only offspring of a busy couple who lived on several acres outside of a rural community, she also suffered the not uncommon curse of being a lonely child.She did not however dwell on this as some would. Hunter was a believer. To the untrained eye her patch of land may have only been a rocky hill filled with scrub oak, mesquite, and cacti, but for a believer, it was a land filled with beauty and magic. She had always known that lurking around every corner there were things that couldn't be seen by just anyone. She never doubted that she would someday be one of the privileged few. It just hadn't happened yet.
Today, though... today felt different. There was something shimmering in the air, just out of reach. She knew that today things would finally change.
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Brillig was "brought to life" by the imaginative powers of a lonely little girl who was often left to roam with only the friends of her mind's eye. She spent many hours looking at the landscape around her and thinking that she saw living beings hidden in its beauty. One day, one of those beings stepped forward.
Though he was the size of large German Shepherd, Hunter was never afraid of the creature, whom she christened Brillig. She quickly learned that his pointy 'needles' were merely stiff whiskers and the grassy fur was smooth as silk. The two spent every moment she could spare from home and school together and she never shared his existence with another living soul.
Years passed in which his mistress grew and her family moved away. Now Brillig roams his hillside alone. It has changed from when Hunter was by his side. Much of the land has been sold to a local rock quarry and every year it gets harder and harder to hide his existence. In a sad twist of fate the creation of a lonely child is now intensely lonely himself. He is the only one of his kind and his sole companion is a butterfly that was transformed by a little of the leftover creativity from his one time mistress.He hopes against hope for his little girl's return.
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