...It didn't seem human to the miller's daughter, in fact
when she saw it she was so sure that it was just her
eyes playing tricks on her. But it was there right in front
of her smiling in the sunlight. The creature was small
and wore tattered clothes which were so dirty that the
colour of them couldn't be seen anymore.
The miller's daughter looked back down at her work still trying to understand how she could spin the straw into gold. She hoped that the creature hadn't seen her looking at it and that it would soon go. She was wrong it stayed there looking at her while she did nothing. Finally, she decided to speak.
"Are you here to see the king?"she asked with hesitation. The creature spoke like he had known her for a long time. "No, I'm here to help you.". The miller's daughter looked up in shock, had the king bought it up here asking it to help me she thought.
"No he hasn't" said the creature as if it had read her mind.
"How did you know" said the miller's daughter carefully seeing that this creature could read her mind. She didn't know what she was doing, she hadn't even asked for it's name, if it had one.
The creature looked at her puzzled, but the miller's daughter knew he was trying to figure she was thinking. It spoke "I cannot tell you my name, but I can help you turn this straw into gold.
So every day the creature helped the miller's daughter turn the straw into gold, and each day the king set out more straw. Finally one day the king saw that the miller's daughter had done enough, so he stopped setting out more hay for her, but still each day the creature came and at last the miller's daughter told him that she no longer needed it's help so the creature went.
The miller's daughter had promised to pay the creature back some time by helping it. But slowly as the years passed she forgot...
Lavinia
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