Once upon a time 💫 in a far away land called the Unicorn Kingdom 🦄 there was a little girl 👧🏻 who loved animals 🐰 💕 well, except that she didn’t👎🏼
Since as far back as she could remember, she didn’t like them at all. In fact, she was terribly frightened indeed 😱 of the dog 🐕 who lived on the neighbouring farm. Whenever the dog would bark, it made the little girl’s heart jump 😯 and her knobbly knees wobble 🥺 Whenever the little girl saw any dog walking by the way 🐾 🙅🏻♀️ she crossed over the street as quickly as she could 🏃🏻♀️ so she wouldn’t have to be near it.
The little girl didn’t understand why people liked being around animals 🤷🏻♀️❓ She knew she liked to eat them though 😁 because her daddy 👴🏼 gave her bites of chicken 🐔🍗 from his plate 🍽 when they went out to village fairs 🎪 and visited other people’s cottages in the land 🏘️
The little girl’s mummy 👩🏼🦳 however, already loved animals 💕 She never ever ate them and she never allowed them to be eaten at home. You see, she knew a 🌟special secret 🌟 about animals 🐱💫 that the little girl 👧🏻 and her daddy 👴🏼 didn’t know yet. It wasn’t the right time 🕰️ for them.
When the little girl got a bit bigger 🚶🏻♀️ she would visit the big fairs of Londinuim 🎪 with her friends, and they would eat animals together, lots of them, all kinds: 🌭 pigs 🥓 goats 🍖 baby lambs, cows 🥩 even snails 🐌 frogs legs 🐸 and all kinds of birds 🍗 and 🦞 sea creatures 🍤🍣 The little girl thought they were so delicious, so yummy in her tummy. So the little girl did love animals, I suppose. Yes, she loved to eat them 🤭
She would dress up in her best dresses 👗 and meet her friends in the most famous fairs in the whole wide world 🌍 places with Dish-ellin Stars 🌟🌟🌟 on the walls, where Queens 👑 and Emperors ⚜️ dined, and where oh so very important patrons 🧐 paid handsomely, sometimes hundreds of gold sovereigns 💰 to meet the best animals, served dead ☠️ on their plates, of course.
Then came the time when the little girl had to travel far, far away, across the seas ⛵ and skies 🛫 to the mystical land of Bollyhood 🕺🏻💃🏻 🎥 to earn some gold sovereigns 💰 for herself. In this mystical land of Bollyhood, she saw that all her new friends 👬👫🏻👭 loved animals 🐑 💕 Yes, they loved to eat them too 🍽️! The little girl was a little taken aback 😲 that they ate animals here because she thought the ancient books 📜 of this land said that this land was holy 😇 and that they didn’t eat animals here🍖 🚫 But, oh well, they did, and so, she did too 🥣
The little girl ate many more animals until one night, until the night of her birthday 🎂🎉 and the time had finally come 🕰️ for her to know the 🌟special secret🌟 about animals 💫🐮🐷💕 This was the night something changed in her forever 🌈
Now, because the little girl was far, far away from the UK 🦄 in this new, mystical, land, and although lots of people wanted to be her friend 👭👫🏻 and go out and eat animals with her, or dance💃🏻 at parties 🎉 and have fun 🍾🥂 the little girl was feeling lonely inside 🙍🏻♀️ Something was missing.
She knew that she had everything. She had a lovely home at the top of a tall, castle tower 🏰 that reached all the way up to the sky ⛅ She had so many friends 👫🏻👭 and gold sovereigns 💰 she couldn’t even count them, and her face was known in many places throughout the land of Bollyhood 💃🏻🎥 and in other Queendoms 👑 and Empires ⚜️ around because she sometimes magically appeared on a screen 🙋🏻♀️📺 in front of people when they pressed the enchanted button that brought her to life.
But still, the little girl knew something was missing. She was missing the 🌟 special secret 🌟 She just didn’t know it yet.
The night 🌃 of her birthday 🎂 was drawing to a close. A handsome, little Bollyhood prince 🤴🏻 had taken her out dancing 💃🏻🕺🏻 at a grand ball 🎉. He was dropping her home, when all of a sudden, the prince halted the carriage 🚘 in the middle of the thoroughfare. He alighted and called to the little girl, “Look 👀 little girl, there’s something there!”
Lo and behold, in the middle of the night 🌃 in the empty boulevard, hiding underneath another carriage 🚙 and peering out with frightened, round, liquid eyes 🥺 was a little dog with a golden, soft, shiny coat, and big floppy ears 🐶
Such a pup was strange for these parts, for, it wore a collar and looked well kept, much unlike the wild hounds 🐕 that roamed freely in the land. The little prince looked worried 🙎🏻♂️ for the poor little thing had no defence if its fate met with one of those hounds that night.
So, he opened the carriage door 🚘 and the little dog lit up 🐶💡😁 Unable to contain his excitement at being rescued, he wagged his little tail 💓 opened his little mouth wide in smiles 😃😁 and bounded all around inside the carriage with his tongue lolling from side to side 🤪 in sheer joy. He was clearly used to traveling in carriages and not meant to be on the streets at all.
The little prince 🤴🏻 and the little girl 👧🏻 looked around to see where the little dog 🐶 could have come from 🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♀️ but there were no homes in sight 🏘️👎🏼 Only empty frames of big, tall, castle towers that had not been entirely built yet 🏗️ stood in this part of the land, among lots of rubble and building material 🧱
“You shall have to take him for the night, my dear 💁🏻♂️ We shall return in the morrow and lay search for the owners of this fine beast 🐶 then,” said the little prince.
“What? 😲 Oh, hell no bro! 🙅🏻♀️” exclaimed the little girl. “Oh fiddlesticks! 🙈 ” she quickly corrected herself. “Err, I mean… But, my dear, kind gentleman, I know not of the care of these creatures. Perhaps he can be hosted at the palace tonight? The gentleman has dogs 🐕🐕 the gentleman, unlike I, is informed of what to do.”
“My dear little girl, the palace dogs are guard dogs and might not be so welcoming 🐕 😠 They may try to harm this poor, innocent chappie 🐶 🙂”
So the little girl found herself in her tower in the sky 👧🏻 🏰 all alone with the little dog 🐶 The little prince 🤴🏻 had dropped them off and had bid them both a goodnight 👋🏻 As he’d departed he’d patted her on the shoulder and wished her a “Happy Birthday,” once more, followed by a telling smile and, “you’ll be alright… bro… 😏”
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The little girl sighed at the little dog looking up at her now with his huge, puppy dog eyes 🐶 👀 and thought, oh heavens! Now what on Earth is one to do with this creature. This thing had better not go peepee on my furniture.
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(Originally published on os.me on March 1, 2021)