Sylva Belle was ready to get out there in the world and
entertain! She hadn’t quite figured out
how—not exactly!—but the
who part was obvious.
“Big people!” she told her family. “Y’know, like the fairy from Three Men and a Fairy? She earned her wings in a human world, and now she’s a dancer and a princess’ bride!
“I don’t know if I’ll marry a human princess or beat big people up, but… there’s a stage with my name on it. Not the stage itself, but that program they pass out to spectators? Yeah. My name would be on that!”
After a comedy act, a song, a dance across piano keys, Sylva started to wonder if there was a misprint on the program. “It’s possible they misspelled my name B-O-O, and the guy who threw the tomato coulda thought I was hungry. If it was fresh, a tomato wouldn’t be a bad pay day.”
After she was done talking to the unconscious drunk, Sylva set out to find the next town that would adore her until she ruined everything.
And then it happened.
She saw the light!
“With all this,” she explained to a curious squirrel, “I could afford a stage of my own, and a big person to cart it around! I wouldn’t have to Walk-of-Shame outta town! I could Ride-in-Style outta town!”
The squirrel staring at the portal chittered and skittered away. Sylva went the opposite direction: to mountains of treasure with her name on it! Not the treasure itself, but that deed that’ll say it’s legally hers.
And then it was… gone.
It was later explained to Sylva and a couple of fellow sprites that what was seen in the portal was one’s Most Important Thing.
Money, she thought to herself. Not love, not fame… just money. And no one to share it with.
With that thought, she sucked all the color right out of the room.
And stole a fork because it was shiny, and if every place setting had two, there were obviously enough to spare.
