The Mystic Tragedies Of Theodhatres: A Hatter's Dreams - The Top Hat With The Red Ribbon by Daniel Arrhakis (2020)

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The Mystic Tragedies Of Theodhatres: A Hatter's Dreams - The Top Hat With The Red Ribbon by Daniel Arrhakis (2020)
The Mystic Tragedies Of Theodhatres: A Hatter's Dreams - The Top Hat With The Red Ribbon by Daniel Arrhakis (2020)

The Mystic Tragedies Of Theodhatres: A Hatter's Dreams - The Top Hat With The Red Ribbon by Daniel Arrhakis (2020)


With the music : Phantasos · Jeremy Soule

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The Hatter Of Dreams

A Hatter lived in the metropolis in an old shop downtown. The Hatters Street had seen better days with many shops dedicated to the manufacture and sale of hats.
Times were different, and in these contemporary times hats had given way to sports caps, only a few elderly people were now their regular customers, either for a special party or for carnival.
The hatter was a young man, he had inherited the store from his father and also the art that he had learned at the time with some reluctance.
After his father's death, he had to move to that store where he slept in an adjoining room, the times only allowed him the memories, of the mother who never got to know or the dreams he would like to make.

One rainy Winter day, an elderly, thin man with a top hat with a red silk ribbon enter in the shop. An old sodden jacket from other times and a beard that reminded Abraham Lincoln, initially smiled, the strange character seemed to be taken from a movie or a distant past.
He greeted chivalrously with a slight bow of his head, removing his old top hat.
Walking around the store looking deep with the bright on the eyes, he asked if the hatter recovered old hats.
He looked and saw that the ribbon was unraveling, a small hole letting in the light and a four-leaf clover made of iron had been gilded in the past. He told him that it would be three days from now because he needed to order the crimson ribbon.
The old man agreed and left the store with another hat borrowed from the hatter and a hot coffee that he offered him in the meantime. That man reminded him of his old father, not because of his expressions but because of his reserved and lean appearance.
When the man left, the rain ended and a strange light illuminated the store as if it were spring.

He closed the store and started fixing the hat, cleaning it, going to the mirror and trying it on before fixing that hole, but when he did it it was like stepping back in time, the walls disappeared before his incredulous eyes and he found himself in the midst of a crowd that shouted "Liberté ! Liberté ! " and took refuge behind a barricade, while shots and desperate shouts were heard from those trying to save who were injured and prostrated on the ground.
He also ran away and while helping one of the fallen people without realizing where he was and what was happening, a shot went through the hat making him fall, at that moment he was in the store again, the hat that was now on the floor had the same hole in it, a bullet hole.

As he was fixing the hat, he sewed the hole, attached the ribbon and golden the shamrock he experienced how it looked in the mirror, and at all these times, he lived inexplicable stories of times past and lives of other times.
A shot at a barricade in France had pierced his hat, a crimson ribbon that a beautiful girl had offered him as proof of love, or a golden clover that had been offered by a woman to her husband before going to war to give him luck ... after all, the clover that his mother had offered to his own father.

( To Be Continued)

Story By Daniel Arrhakis (2020)

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