Sea Sprite's Treasure
There once was a beautiful sea sprite, happy and carefree, playing with her sea sprite friends. Dancing along the ocean bottom one day, she saw laying there, among the corals, a shiny golden egg. Tiny and mishappened but precious all the same. Suddenly she knew that she was a very special sea sprite. Among all others she was chosen to find this treasure. After that, she carried the golden egg with her everywhere like a rare jewel. The other sea sprites said, "Put the egg away and come and play with us. Lets dance among the corals." But the little sprite would not.
One day, while sunning themselves at the water's surface, the egg resting on the sea sprite's belly, the sprites noticed a change in the air around them. The clouds began to rumble, the heavens turned dark and the water currents shifted. All the sprites quickly swam to warn the others of the impending storm. The tiny beautiful sprite, frightened of what was to come, hid her precious golden treasure egg in an oyster just as the storm hit. Waves were tossing about, the oyster buried itself deep into the ocean bottom. After what seemed like an eternity, the oceans settled. There was not a sea sprite to be found anywhere. It was as if they had never been. A sadness gripped the ocean inhabitants, a loss they did not understand. Years passed...
The ocean grew healthy again and fishermen marveled at the abundance. One day, the oyster, lazy from years of sleep, was captured in a fisherman's net.The curious fisherman, too impatient to sort through the day's bounty, grabbed this odd shaped oyster and quickly popped open the shell. There for all to see was the largest, most luminescent pearl that anyone had ever seen. Perfect enough to be given as a gift to the beautiful princess of thier kingdom. For twas not a golden egg the tiny sea sprite had found many years ago but a shiny piece of gold, an object of much love, placed in the oyster for safekeeping, to become the loveliest of the ocean's treasures. From the hands of a tiny magical sea sprite to the crown of a beautiful princess.
Love begets love.
