A Glass Bottle Containing Dreams

Nice to meet you, Mikan-san ٩(๑❛ᴗ❛๑)۶

In a small town overlooking the sea,
lived a girl named Luna.

Luna loved collecting old glass bottles.

Blue bottles,
green bottles,
glass bottles that glowed like the moon.

Among them, a small bottle with a silver lid
would glow softly blue
at night.

One rainy night,
when Luna peered into the bottle,
a small light flickered inside.

"Good evening."

Startled, she rubbed her eyes,
and there was a tiny fairy
with wings like stardust.

"I am Mio, a guardian of dreams,"
Mio said with slightly sad eyes.

"This bottle contains trapped dreams."

"Trapped dreams?"

"Yes,"
"When people become afraid of getting hurt, they lock their dreams deep inside their hearts."

At those words, Luna felt a sharp pang in her chest.

Luna had never thought about it before.

But... her chest ached a little.

It was because she was afraid of being told that her dreams were impossible if she spoke of them.

That night,
Mio said,

"You know, dreams are more beautiful
when you let them fly into the sky rather than trapping them."

Then,
the lid of the bottle clicked open.

Blue and golden lights
float softly up into the night sky.

Just like tiny shooting stars,

Luna whispered.
"I love collecting small bottles, so I want to be a shopkeeper."

In that moment,
the depths of her heart felt a little warmer.

In the night sky, the light of dreams
continued to glow blue forever.

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