Gwynnie and the Heart Shaped Locket
In a land far far away, during a time where kings ruled. There was a little girl named Gwynnie short for Guinevere. Gwynnie was a child of the forest, she was not the typical child who lived in a home with family. The forest was her home, and the animals of the forest was her family. The only memory that Gwynnie had of a home or family were long ago of her father and mother who she did not know if they were dead or alive. The last memory that she had of them was her father carrying her on his back as he and her mother ran through the forest frantic for dear life. Gwynnie remembered the voices of yelling men and trampling of horses galloping through the forest after them. She remembers hearing a man’s voice saying find them and kill them. She remembered that and being very afraid. Gwynnie was only 9 years old. Her father and mother ran far deep into the forest, they stumbled across a tree that had a hole in it big enough to hide Gwynnie and so they did. Gwynnie remembered the last thing that they said, “say here and do not come out no matter what.” Her mother then took of a heart shaped locket and placed around Gwynnie’s neck, and we will always be with you Gwynnie. Her mother was the most beautiful woman in the land at least that is what she remembered her father would always say. The only thing that Gwynnie had left of them was that heart shaped locket and she cherished it with all her heart. Inside the locket was a picture of her father and mother but what Gwynnie did not know was that the locket was more valuable than she knew, and it contained mush more than a picture of her father and mother. But soon she would discover that.