Finest Marbles
She came home with this story about how F. had stolen apples from the poison orchard, and how he made her taste one - which made her sick in her stomach. But when the party arrived in search for F. all they could find were the ashes of the fireplace around which she had told him little lies and robbed him of his finest marbles. He came home in tears, and for years he believed that A. would curse him - but her threats were a s hollow as her soul, which barely exists.