The Wishing Tree (1): A Destiny City Star Festival Tradition to be held every year; In Town Square, there is a beautiful tree with spreading branches. It is tall, but the lowest branches are easily reached. The city has decorated the tree with small, starlike ornaments and glistening lights. Thick leaves and beautiful purple flowers dangle from the branches, along with a myriad of different colored papers with handwritten wishes. Next to the tree is a stack of blank paper with twine attached, and a handwritten sign that explains:
Write your wish on a sheet of paper and tie it to the tree. Take one wish off the tree and do your best to grant it. When you have granted the wish, bury the paper in the park.
The papers are biodegradable and filled with seeds. There are no rules for wishing, but you are encouraged to wish for something vague enough that it can be interpreted in many ways so that it can be granted; you do not write your name on it, but it is encouraged to write something that doesn’t wish for self gain, but rather something that can make the world a better place. Some wishes dangling from the tree already include things like “I wish there wasn’t so much litter in the park,” “I wish someone would clean the graffiti off the old historic buildings,” and “I wish there were more volunteers at the shelter.”
If you choose to use the Wishing Tree, what do you wish for? If your wish is private, you may write it on the paper and choose a spot in the park and bury it yourself instead of hanging it on the tree.

Dawn worked her way the Wishing Tree. It had been her favorite attraction every year since Star Fest had started. Every year she made the same wish. And every year... well it came true, but no more than usual. Well, this year was going to be different. Her dark auburn hair flashed in the sun as she focused on that tree.

As she entered the area, her elbow brushed the brick wall and knocked something loose. She didn't notice as a Star Charm fell to the ground. Looking into that ginormous tree, she felt enormously overwhelmed, and yet at the same time- empowered.

She walked up to the table and began chicken scratching out her wish on a piece of paper put there or that reason. A tear ran down her face as it always did when she wrote this wish.

I wish that foster children were more a part of the community than just outcasts. She wiped the tear from her eye. (She was one of those foster children). Then she hung up her wis, which was on light blue and purple paper. Then she turned around and got the shock of her life. Where there had been no one behind her before, now there was a a line 20 feet long and all of them saw her tear. "Uh..." She had a deer in highlights expression as she frozen.

[quote="Kaori-Luv] Really sorry this took so long biggrin