Pandora's Life Recordings: week 107: item

Published Mar 4, 2024, 4:54:46 PM UTC | Last updated Mar 4, 2024, 4:54:46 PM | Total Chapters 1

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A leatherbound book dyed pink, Pandora's favourite color. It is hollow on the inside, the pages carved out to make space for the cassette tapes that sat there. When you listen to them, you are surprised to hear Pandora's voice, telling you about notable days in her life...

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Chapter 1: week 107: item

One day, Pandora was outside. She was attempting to hang clothes up to dry, but the wind was against her today. Struggling to keep herself steady, she nearly toppled over onto the ground. Regaining her footing, she sighed softly. Her sister was out today, so she was left to do the chores herself. After hanging up the last of the wet clothes, she dried her hands on a towel she found nearby. Hearing a slight rustle to her left, she wondered if her sister was home. 

"Kylea?" She called, but instead of the soft-spoken voice she expected, a nasally, high-pitched squeak came from nearby,

"Hey, who are you!?" She raised her arms defensively. She backed towards the house, afraid that whoever -- or whatever -- it was would attack. The creature/person snickered and she felt the wind against her arm. The thing/person dropped a box into her hand.

"What is it?" She asked, but got no response. She went back into the house, and sat down shakily at the table. Scared to open it--it could be something like spiders--she fumbled with the edges of the box. She could feel smooth tape, and bumpy surfaces. She ripped it open and reached her hand in. And touched a scaly surface. It was slimy too, and she assumed it was a sea creature. Maybe a fish. Kylea often brought back fish for dinner, and she had felt them before. 

Suddenly, it twitched a bit, then something wet slapped her hand, and Pandora shifted her chair back. Shoot. It was alive. Some prankster had gifted the blind girl of the village a live fish. So funny. Sighing, she scooped it up, careful not to be too harsh with it, and started making her way to the pond near her house.

Walking down the street, she thought about how her neighbours would see her. She could imagine Susan, one of her elderly neighbours, who was very dissaproving towards her. 'Oh look, theres the blind girl, doing some strange things again. Is that a fish?' She grinned at the image in her mind, in which Susan was grimacing at the fish.

Who would gift her a fish? She started thinking. Most definitely one of the children. No sensible adult would do anything like this. And the person ran fast too. She could narrow it down to around 5 children in the village, each of them ran fast, and some had parents who were fishers. They could've easily swiped a live fish from their parent, and run off with it. They had to be brave too, not many children she knew would touch a live fish, much less wrap it up in a box. No matter. She was going to set the fish free, then she could just forget about it. It wasn't a big act of disobediance or anything, just a harmless prank to scare someone.

Reaching the pond, she knelt down to set the fish free, but suddenly, it spoke to her.

"Thanks bro!" It squeaked in a childish voice. Pandora dropped it in the water with a plop, alarmed. And she stood there with a startled, confused look on her face. For an hour. And then she made her way back home, questioning what she had just experienced. Fish weren't supposed to speak... were they?

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