Prompt 1: The Wishing Tree
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.
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.
Hikari stood beneath the Wishing Tree, she was here with her mother and twin sister but she had separated from the other two as they were busy looking at the wonderful lights the city had decorated the tree with. Hikari had taken one of the slips of paper that the signs said to write a wish on. She turned the paper over in her hand thinking about the practice, in some ways it resembled certain festivals from her homeland but it had completely unique elements too that she really appreciated. She felt the seeds that were stored within the biodegradable paper, she loved the idea behind it if you wanted your wish to come true you had to fulfill another person's wish first and then you would bury the slip of paper the wish was on it and one day it would grow into a plant and make the city more beautiful.
She wondered what she should write as a wish, her first immediate thought was to wish that she was stronger so that she could actually help in battles instead of just relying on others all the time. But then she thought about that wish some more, the wish was supposed to be selfless and while her motivation for wanting more strength was wanting to protect others it was ultimately a selfish wish. Besides that how was some random person supposed to fulfill her wish, even if by some miracle a powered person came across her note and they somehow figured out it belonged to her it wasn't like anyone could magically just make her more powerful no she would have to work for that.
She also wished her oldest sister would come back home. She had to laugh at that thought, the idea that maybe by some miracle maybe her sister would find the wish and despite not remembering maybe she would still somehow come home. It couldn't happen she knew that, her sister probably wouldn't even know who she was there was no way she would just show up back home at some point. It was childish though no wish was going to fix that problem. No, she just needed to pray she was able to find her someday and that she could convince her to come back to the family she likely could not remember.
Then she thought of the dead area on her world. But again that was unrealistic and it was selfish. How could someone go to her world to help replant her garden? But that got her thinking, her dead garden needed her to tend and care for it in order for it to come back but what about the flora of Destiny City. It was a good thing for the community and it seemed fitting given her sphere of power as Tachibana. She liked the idea as she grabbed a pen and wrote her wish on the slip of paper before she hung it from the tree.
'Plant more flowers around the city.'
