Aurora and the Chamber Of Wishes

In a sunburnt, wrecked village where people were greedy for anything they could find, there was one girl called Auroura and she was selfless. She too would scavenge but only for survival. Although she had a big heart, people rejected her. Days passed and yet Aurora was still treated like garbage.

One day whilst she was being bullied she couldn’t take it anymore so she ran away into the woods, tears streaking down her face. A few minutes later she had reached her favourite willow tree, and here no one could torture her. So she curled up into a ball and calmed down her mind. Just as she was about to leave she saw a glint in the corner of her eye. She looked back, but she could just see the woods. As she turned back she saw the glint again. “Just a trick of light” said her brain, but her mind said “look again”. So she looked and there, wedged between the gnarled roots was a glint of gold. She sprinted to the gold, thoughts racing through her head: “What could it be?”. She was cautiously excited as she lifted up the ancient roots and saw gold. Excitement rushed through her as she picked up the sheet of gold, her hands shaking.

As Aurora looked at the sheet of gold and looked closer she realised that it was a map! She thought of going to the end of the map or selling it. Her adventurous spirit said “go!”, but her homeless self said “sell it”. She looked at herself from her dusty, dirty feet to her ragged clothes all the way to her midnight black hair, which she removed to reveal her dusty rosy cheeks and above her twinkling eyes lost in dilemma. But whispering in her head a voice said: “you only live once”. So it was set – she would go there. And the next day she set off.

A few hours after climbing up mountains and valleys she reached the end. She dropped the map in awe, because towering above her was an ancient, immense chamber. And just visible through the moss it said “HERE LIES THE CHAMBER OF WISHES”. These letters were engraved in a rusty metal door. Her whole body was shaking with excitement, as she slowly pushed the door open. And what a sight! The top of the chamber was covered in flowers but most importantly hovering around the chamber was millions of big balls of blue light – wishes. She thought of her life and inside the voice said “I deserve one”. She herself was unbelievably kind, so she wished for people to make peace.

And the other wishes? She let them free, but forbid them to go to the rich. So the wishes went. The rich looked up with greed, but got nothing as the wishes flew just above their reach. Aurora came out of the forest, and instead of being hit on the face, she had villagers begging her for forgiveness. “I will tell you this”, she announced, “when you are in hard times, first try to get out and then try to fight the problem”. And from that day she was still the humble, big-hearted soul who had changed the world.