But, the Wolf They found her, naked, curled into a protective ball – not quite the fetal position – nestled in between the great roots of a giant tree. “We’re so glad we found you,” they said. They didn’t ask how she’d come to be there; they simply accepted her return. “Here, put this […]
“Mama! Come look! There’s a bedraglon on the beach! We have to help it!” “A what?” My child confused me sometimes. “A bedraglon,” she repeated. “You know, when a thing is all mussed and tired and fade-y it’s bedraggled, right?” I couldn’t fault her vocabulary. Since moving to Vios, she’d had […]
In the cold gray dawn the sisters lit their lamp and read their chapter with an earnestness never felt before. For now the shadow of a real trouble had come, the little books were full of help and comfort, and as they dressed, they agreed to say goodbye cheerfully and hopefully, and send their mother […]
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