The Blanket

In a time not too far ago, there was a girl named Jaxana. Jaxana was like most small girls except for one thing, Jaxana could not go anywhere without her blanket. One day, her father, Vaskor got fed up and tried to take her blanket away from her but, when he did, Jaxana cried and her father eventually gave in. A few days later, Jaxana forgot her blanket at home. She wailed at her daycare and the daycare people had to call Vaskor in the middle of a very important meeting to bring Jaxana her blanket. Vaskor was furious when he arrived at the daycare with Jaxana’s blanket. Out of his anger Vaskor threw her blanket in the sewer while the city workers were maintaining it. The blanket ran with the water out of sight. Jaxana was in a mixed state of deep melancholy and fury. Jaxana refused to talk to her father for days. Finally, Vaskor decided to retrieve the blanket. Sneaking out of his home in the middle of the night, Vaskor headed to the sewers. Lucky for Vaskor, the city workers forgot to close the manhole. Vaskor carefully climbed down the manhole and began his search for the blanket. He walked through the muddy floors of the sewer until he reached a steep fall that would bring sure death if one would fall its length. Vaskor hesitated for a moment but then remembered his daughter. Vaskor saw a rope tied to a tree, maybe from another man who didn’t make it. It didn’t matter why; all Vaskor knew was that he had to find the blanket that was so dear to his daughter. Then he saw it, the blanket was dangling half way the fall. Vaskor only had one chance. If he messed up he would be dead. He put the rope around his waist and leaped for the blanket. Vaskor got lucky and got the blanket in his first leap. Vaskor started climbing up to go home when his rope broke. Miraculously he managed to get up to the edge of the fall again. When Vaskor reached home he quickly rushed to clean up Jaxana’s blanket. By mistake Vaskor tripped over a metal bucket and Jaxana woke up. When she woke up she saw a muddy Vaskor holding the clean blanket. Vaskor was expecting a tantrum to be thrown at him by Jaxana but instead she hugged him. Jaxana realized how childish she had been in whining over a simple blanket and father and daughter made up.