ReStory the Stars
The Heroine, by the divine Isak Dinesen, is a caution and a vision, as is The Ash Girl.
In The Heroine, Heloise is the goddess Diana (Artemis), not much disguised, living amongst the humans in WWII. There is a moment when a group of strangers has been waylaid together at a hotel, trying to leave their now occupied country. The German soldiers come and a test must be passed by the whole group, one of moral courage (a Baba Yaga, Oldest Living Catfish kind of test, answer wrong and you are all dead).
The young man, Frederick, who knew this story and gives it to us recalls years after how Heloise had to step in where he couldn’t and save them all from being eaten on the spot. He meets her in Paris by chance and she reminds him of the power he had, if only he’d used it.
Don't they know? I don't think they do.
The humans, I mean.
How much power they wield with the stories they tell.
- Artemis | CH 8 | The Ash Girl
Wishes are stories too.
What would you wish on a falling star?
What story would you tell to fly us all home?
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