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by MARION:ette (story summary)
In Fallon Village there was a girl named Andina. She was very insecure with herself and consequently did not have any friends, and so grew up very lonely. Her parents were little-known doll maker’s who had recently gone to a faraway village to sell their dolls as they had fallen on hard times. However, they did not return, and for three weeks Andina waited for them. She worked on a life-sized doll, which she called Marion, and planned to show it to her parents when they came back, as a surprise. She said it was her “masterpiece”. On the last day of the third-week, Andina received devastating news: her parents had been killed when their train back had fallen off the tracks.
Andina blamed the dolls for her parent’s death, and vowed never to follow in her parent’s footsteps a doll maker, despite once aspiring to be one. She threw out all of the dolls and toys in her house into the basement, anything that reminded her of her parents. However, she could not bring herself to throw away Marion. Instead, she gave the doll a mind and a soul, but she still needed for it a heart.
That night, she snuck into the Desveaux Manor, and into the cemetery. She dug up the grave of Lucy Desveaux, who had recently died at the tender age of nine due to a fatal illness (and since then the manor had slowly been slipping into disrepair as the family of the house became too distraught to care). She removed the girl’s heart, and placed it into the chassis of her masterpiece. Marion began to move, however, her heart never beat.
Years later, and the two girls, Andina and Marion, were best friends. No one knew that Marion was really a doll, and instead thought she was an orphan who had recently moved to Fallon. She had no memories of her past, and so the village concluded her parents had died traumatically and had therefore caused Marion to suppress her own memories.
Marion had a strange fascination with dolls and puppets and toys, and claimed to be able to talk to them, causing the village to believe she was quite mad. They decided it was probably a comfort for her, something that had settled into her when her parents had died, yet although they felt sympathy, they were reluctant to spend long amounts of time with her.
The exception to that was Andina, who Marion had affectionately nicknamed “Di” (the villagers at first were quite surprised at this, it sounded like “die”, an obvious nod to the death of her parents, however they soon discovered there was no malice behind it, and besides, Andina did not seem to mind), who also seemed to believe that Marion could talk to toys.
They made a strange pair; a girl who detested dolls and toys and another who was absolutely obsessed with them. It was this obsession that had caused Marion to leave Shibellu House, where she had been previously residing with Andina after she had offered, and move into Rapisuri House with her large collection of toys. Nonetheless they were strong friends, and one was hardly ever seen without the other.
Marion’s favourite toy was a teddy bear named Abel who she considered as important to her as Andina herself, a fact which Andina found slightly overbearing.
When Marion asked Abel why she was able to speak to dolls, and no one else seemed to, Abel told her to put her hand on her heart. He said that because her heart did not beat, she was just like them, and therefore was able to speak to the toys.
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