Emerald Tales: Seeing Green
The Wizard, unhappy with people mocking his daughter because of her skin, builds the Emerald City.
The citizens of Oz gathered to hear the words of their Wonderful Wizard. "Citizens of Oz! For the benefit and glory of Oz I am commissioning the building of a City of Emeralds. Green is the colour of happiness and good fortune. It is a very magical colour."
The citizen murmured amongst themselves. They wondered about this idea but were intrigued. Slowly the Ozians grew to love the Emerald city. If the Wizard liked the colour then it had to be good. Buildings were painted green or built from green stones, people wore green clothes and green had become the most popular colour.
Oscar Diggs known as the Wonderful Wizard of Oz looked out over the city, only he knew the real for the Emerald City. He looked downed down at the reason. The reason was his six month old daughter who through his actions was green. He could not bear the thought of his beautiful daughter to be mocked and shunned for skin colour so he built the Emerald City to make the Ozians love the colour green and therefore his daughter. "Hello Elphaba my sweet. How are you this fine morning?" Oscar smiled as he picked her up. She giggled. Looking at her was bittersweet, because of his miracle elixir, Melena had died in childbirth and Elphaba born green.
The time was right, he decided to introduce to his daughter to the people of Oz.