There is a very big song contest in another big human city... that people call Salonica...
When Ma and Eu heard about it, at some point, they found it very funny! How is it possible to compare one song with another? How is it possible that a panel of judges gives points to the songs? In their fairy-world, every song has a different value and cannot be compared to any other...
Ma and Eu, though, started thinking about entering the contest, because, if their songs got there, they would be heard by the whoooole world through some weird boxes (that are called TV sets and radios) and some other boxes (that are called computers, where there's YouTube and several other things that they didn't really know what they were...). They thought that if they were heard by the whoooole world then maybe the Athenians would hear them too... (because, strangely, the residents of this weird city, though they had forgotten how to listen to each other, they had an incredible ability to listen to and be influenced by whatever was transmitted by these ugly boxes, which have, however, magical abilities, as they can make you communicate with the whoooole world! Imagine that Ma, Eu and Ko wondered whether they could find a way to communicate with the fairy-world through Facebook, where - I don't know If you know - one can find a lot of people)...
So, Ma and Eu wrote two songs for the contest, "The Doll" and "The Prince". But, in the end, due to lack of time and because they didn't want to rash it... they didn't send them... But it doesn't matter, because, afterwards, the relative scripts were added and two new characters were born...
And, thus, the Girl and the Gypsy were created...
It should be fairy-noted:
- Ma and Eu participated in the contest with two other songs, in the following year. They were rejected... They should have listened to Ko, who had a personal experience of the contest and the difficulties it held for elves... Ma thought that it is easier to reject quality than approve it. But Eu had a better answer... the judges had forgotten how to listen, as well...
- Although Ma loved her dolls and the stories she made with them very much, she never had that sort of relationship with a doll... This isn't an autobiographical story... The Little Girl was Ma's way of expressing the challenge that current standards put women through...
