Ruby Slipper's

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After seeing "Wicked," the words "Where's my Ruby Slippers? I wanna go home again" popped into my head, and I created a song that really speaks to my mental health.

This is the song I created.

Ruby Slippers
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12CcLyl9lmkOYwCZutagiMdy5yQu0-TJM/view?usp=sharing

and

This is the start of The Wizard of OZ Part 3.




Ruby Slippers


Dorothy Gale is a young girl from Kansas who has found herself trapped in the magical Land of Oz. She has survived extraordinary dangers, made unlikely friends, and desperately sought a way home.

Throughout her journey, Dorothy has remained fundamentally innocent. She believes in kindness, friendship, fairness, and the difference between good and evil. She believes that good people do good things and wicked people deserve to be stopped.

That belief is shattered when she throws a bucket of water onto the Wicked Witch of the West.

The Witch screams. Her body appears to dissolve. Within moments, nothing remains but a puddle, her clothing, and the terrible silence following her apparent death.

Then the cheering begins.

Dorothy has defeated the Wicked Witch. She is a hero. Her friends are safe. Oz is free.

But Dorothy does not celebrate.

She stares at the water spreading across the floor, watching it creep between the cracks in the stone.

She has killed someone.

Not a creature from a nightmare. Not a monster from a storybook. A living, breathing woman who screamed as she died.

Dorothy had seen the Witch's anger, heard her threats, and feared her power. But she had also seen her face. Now that face is gone, and Dorothy cannot escape the knowledge that she was the one who made it disappear.

She had not come to Oz to become a killer.

She had only wanted to go home.

### The Celebration

The Tin Man, Cowardly Lion, and Scarecrow surround Dorothy. Their relief is unmistakable, but Dorothy begins noticing something else.

The Tin Man seems almost afraid to touch her. The Lion looks away when their eyes meet. The Scarecrow watches her with an expression she cannot understand.

Are they frightened of her?

Do they see something in her that was not there before?

Or is Dorothy projecting her own horror onto the faces of those she loves?

This ambiguity is important. Dorothy's guilt begins distorting her interpretation of the world around her. Ordinary gestures become accusations. Silence becomes judgment. Kindness begins to feel like pity.

She cannot understand why everyone is happy.

They are celebrating a death.

Worse, they are celebrating her for causing it.

### The Secret Dorothy Does Not Know

The Wicked Witch of the West, Elphaba, is not dead.

Her apparent death was an elaborate deception designed to allow her to escape the persecution that has consumed her life.

The Scarecrow is not the simple, harmless creature Dorothy believes him to be. He is Prince Fiyero, transformed through magic and secretly in love with Elphaba.

Fiyero and Elphaba arranged the Witch's disappearance so they could escape the hatred and danger surrounding them and begin a life together beyond Oz.

The deception works perfectly.

Everyone believes the Wicked Witch is dead.

Including Dorothy.

But Elphaba has made a terrible mistake.

She considered her own suffering, her need to escape, and the future she hoped to share with Fiyero. She never seriously considered what would happen to the innocent girl who believed she had killed her.

To Elphaba, the deception was an act of survival.

To Dorothy, it was the destruction of her innocence.

Fiyero, having traveled beside Dorothy and earned her trust, understands more than Elphaba how deeply the deception may affect her. Yet he chooses to protect Elphaba's secret.

Dorothy never discovers that one of her closest companions knows she has committed no murder.

### The Beginning of Dorothy's Transformation

Dorothy wants to go home to Kansas. She wants Aunt Em, Uncle Henry, the familiar fields, the smell of rain on the prairie, and the comforting certainty of an ordinary world.

But something has changed.

She begins to fear that returning to Kansas will not return her to the girl she used to be.

The memories follow her everywhere.

She remembers the Witch's scream. She sees the puddle. She hears the cheering.

The more people praise her courage, the more she despises what she believes she has done.

The people of Oz begin calling her their savior, but Dorothy feels increasingly isolated from them.

She no longer trusts the distinction between good and evil.

If killing the Witch made her good, what does goodness really mean?

If everyone can celebrate the death of someone they hate, how different are they from the monsters they fear?

And if Dorothy herself has become capable of killing, what else might she become?

### The Slippers

The enchanted slippers become central to Dorothy's transformation.

At first, they appear silver, beautiful and seemingly innocent. They represent Dorothy's hope of returning home and recovering the life she has lost.

But the slippers possess a secret power Dorothy does not understand.

They respond to the darkness growing inside their wearer, reflecting and amplifying hidden fears, desires, and emotional wounds.

They are not simply enchanted footwear. They are instruments of temptation, capable of influencing Dorothy's thoughts while making those thoughts seem entirely her own.

The slippers begin suggesting that she can escape her memories.

That she can make the pain stop.

That she can become someone stronger, someone who will never again feel helpless or afraid.

The word *ruby* begins appearing in Dorothy's thoughts, seemingly without explanation, as though the slippers themselves are planting the idea.

At first, the slippers remain silver, occasionally flashing red when Dorothy experiences fear, anger, shame, or despair.

As Dorothy increasingly surrenders to these emotions, the red becomes more persistent.

The color is not simply an indication that Dorothy is becoming evil. It represents the gradual loss of her freedom to choose who she wants to be.

The slippers feed upon the very suffering they promise to relieve.

### Dorothy's Darkening World

Oz gradually changes through Dorothy's eyes.

The brilliant colors that once seemed magical become overwhelming and artificial. The cheerful songs sound cruel. The smiling faces conceal intentions she no longer trusts.

She begins to question whether Oz was ever the wonderful place she imagined.

Her desire to return home becomes an obsession, but she is increasingly afraid that Kansas will no longer recognize her.

Dorothy's greatest fear is not that she will never escape Oz.

It is that she will escape and discover that the little girl who left Kansas no longer exists.

The slippers offer her a different solution: forget the pain, surrender to their power, and become someone who no longer needs innocence.

For a time, Dorothy accepts their promise.

She becomes harder, more suspicious, and increasingly willing to use the magic available to her.

Her transformation is gradual. She still experiences moments of compassion and tenderness. She still remembers the girl she was. Those memories become painful reminders of everything she believes she has lost.

Eventually, the slippers become completely red.

### The Witch's Return

At a later point in the story, Elphaba's survival is revealed.

This revelation has enormous consequences for Dorothy.

The woman she believed she murdered has been alive all along.

The guilt that destroyed her innocence was built upon a lie.

Dorothy must confront the knowledge that her suffering could have been prevented by a single act of honesty.

She must also confront Fiyero's betrayal.

The Scarecrow, whom she trusted as a friend, knew the truth.

The revelation should not instantly heal Dorothy. Years of fear, shame, anger, and self-condemnation cannot simply disappear because she learns that the original event was staged.

Instead, the revelation forces her to reconsider everything she believes about herself.

She was never the murderer she thought she was.

But she must still take responsibility for the choices she made afterward.

### The Struggle for the Slippers

Dorothy eventually loses possession of the slippers, potentially to Elphaba, whose own history and suffering make her vulnerable to their influence.

When Elphaba wears them, they turn green, reflecting a different relationship between the slippers and their wearer.

Dorothy is left without the magical power she has come to depend upon.

For the first time, she must face herself without the slippers' influence.

She begins a journey across Oz to recover them, believing they remain her only means of returning to Kansas.

But the journey becomes something greater.

Dorothy must rediscover the kindness, courage, and compassion she once possessed.

She must learn that innocence cannot always be recovered, but goodness can still be chosen.

### The Heart of the Story

*Ruby Slippers* is ultimately about a young girl who believes she has committed an unforgivable act and allows that belief to destroy her sense of self.

Her journey is not simply about escaping a magical land.

It is about escaping the darkness that has taken root inside her.

Dorothy longs to return to Kansas, but Kansas represents more than a physical place.

It represents safety, belonging, innocence, and the person she remembers being before Oz changed her.

Her greatest challenge is learning that she cannot undo what she has experienced.

She can only decide who she will become because of it.

**The central emotional question:**

*Can Dorothy find her way home without first finding her way back to herself?*


As Dorothy loses herself in OZ, the once Magical Emerald City also turns Dark and Sinister.

Is she the cause? In a way, yes, through the Magic of the now-Ruby Slippers, the Emerald City becomes tainted with Greed, Selfishness, addiction, and violence.

Can Dorothy find herself? Can OZ?