Guise and Dolls Doll/Transformation scene

This is a rough draft of a middle scene in Guise and Dolls. I’m thinking it would be in around the 1/3 mark.

The store face was discoloured and the painted sign simply said Curios. Its windows were lined with a thick layer of dust and the hours of operation was illegible. Despite its average and rundown look it gave Seanna shivers. Not the kind brought on by fear but those which are brought on by excitement. There was something exciting about the old store and once she had looked at it she couldn’t stop herself from going in and looking around.

The excitement of the store made her completely forget about the boy following her. She walked towards the door and saw a small wooden sign with the word Open carved into it. Putting one hand on the door she pushed it open and a small bell rang as she walked in.

For Seanna this was an amazing store filled with oddities and strange items. There was stuff lining shelves from ceiling to floor with the only exception being the far wall that was filled with old books. She spun in place only a few feet into the store and squeaked in excitement.

As for Randal the store looked dirty he was amazed that it wasn’t condemned. He walked into the store and felt he could taste the moist and dank smell. The only think in the store that interested him was the strange girl who seemed to be spinning and uncontrollably squeaking at everything in the store. Her hair was flowing out catching what sparse sunlight the dusty windows let in.

“Why are you so excited, this place smells like Mrs. Faulkner’s office and is filled with nothing but junk?” He covered his amazement with condescension.

“I wouldn’t expect you to see it. You’re blind to the wonders around you.” She said it without sounding angry, she sounded like a teacher about to explain something they though would change peoples worlds. “Everything here has a story, a history something amazing happened to everything here. Look at this brooch. You see that its tarnished silver with a small Viking ship on it. I see the fair woman who proudly wore it while her husband went whaling. I see that same woman in tears when her husband never returned and in her anger threw the brooch into the ocean. It was found years latter by two small girls who saw it for the wonder it was. They grew up always treasuring it until they died and their children sold it to this little shop.”

“How can you know that for sure. It’s just a brooch, a piece of tarnished metal in a rundown dusty old store.” Randal wasn’t able to hide the wonder in his voice.

“It’s called an imagination Randy. The world is filled with stories and ideas but if you’re confined by reality you’ll never see them. Why are you following me?”

“I…It’s… uhm… You’re weird…” His awkward stumbling was interrupted by a sharp intake of breath and Seanna running past him and towards two dolls.

“Aren’t they beautiful Randy?” She held up two wooden carved dolls. One was a representation of a woman and the other a man. They were in what seemed to be formalwear> the woman’s hair was painted yellow and the man’s was brown. They seemed lifelike to Randal. Like their tiny painted eyes followed him.

“They’re sort of creepy.” Randal said.

“When I was a little girl, my grandfather gave me a doll that looked just like me and I was convinced that everyone had a doll that looked like them, I though that it was to hold our souls after we died, holding them till we could be reborn into a new body, like a little phylactery. ”

Blinking several times Randal didn’t know what to say, this girl was strange and everything that should repel him but he couldn’t help wanting to be near her. He tried to smile and reached out for the male doll. Once his hands touched it he felt cold and the more he looked at it the more life like it became. He felt dizzy and reached out for Seanna’s arm.

There are times in everyone’s life where a decision changes you more then you could ever understand and a simple action leads to endless psychological consequences. This was not one of those moments. Granted it was a life changing one for both Seanna and Randal but it was forced upon them and no one can be forced to change. No this was the moment that changed Barbara and Kenneth’s lives. The Dolls that had been their prison for countless centuries finally released them, allowing them to take over the bodies of two people that where holding the prison and each other.

In the instant Randal touched Seanna they both experienced a nauseating sensation of spinning. It was a few seconds before their minds cleared enough for them to understand what they were seeing.

From the eyes of the Dolls, which had been replaced on the shelf, Seanna saw herself straiten to her full height, stretch her limbs, run her hands over her body and push her hair behind her ears. Seanna then heard her body say, “Thank you little one, this body will be a lot of fun.”

Randal’s attempts to scream were fruitless as he looked at himself do the same things as Seanna was. His body waited till Seanna had whispered to the doll and then he kissed here. From his place on the shelf Randal could see himself passionately kissing Seanna.

Pulling away he said, “It’s nice to finally be able to touch you again Barbara.” Taking her hand they walked out of the store. Randal, wooden on his shelf, scared tried to scream again but couldn’t get the satisfaction. He was trapped in a doll and the mere though was terrifying. He started to pray.

Next to him on the shelf was Seanna, inches away yet neither knew they weren’t alone. She tried to cry and realised her new body wouldn’t let her. She cleared her mind and watched the last of the sunlight disappear from the store’s front windows.

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