Authors note: Double Drabble, based on the 2005 movie.
Disclaimer: Charlie and the chocolate Factory is not mine.
Willy Wonka habitually lied. Naturally he lied about even that, so therefore he told himself he was rather honest, all things considered. Sometimes he felt that, in making a 'truer' truth, the facts and the truth didn't need to line up For all the truth in that, merely making up facts when you felt like it didn't make truth either: yet another inconvenient fact.
Truth, however, had nothing to do with Willy Wonka lying; he just did.
After all the Wonkas were a normal family.
Most any person could string liquorice into forts and puzzles and games.
It was a mediocre, inconsequential party trick in this enlightened age to make chocolate birds sing.
Parents worried about their children, and billions had fights where they lost important things: keys, pictures, shirts, houses, futures.
And children set out to find their fortune every day.
Shadows did not talk. They didn't need to. They were already in the right place. They had never been lost.
The truth was making chocolate was the simplest thing in the world. Most people didn't understand that you only needed the right truth and it came out perfectly. The bitterness was just truth adjusting.