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This happened many years ago, when we lived near the woods everyone said were haunted.
Fascinated by the neat rows of vegetables growing in our garden, she, poor thing, had strayed from the path one night, while her light-footed comrades danced on, to reed and drum, back to the hill in the woods that everyone stayed well away from, back to the golden door that opens the way into the twighlit land.
She'd crept into our carefully tended garden, through an open briar gate I'd woven, that closed behind her, softly.
Intrigued by right angles, she'd stopped to count carrot tops, multiplying those sums by her pet dandelions, wild onions, and patches of little red strawberries that grew in the woods she knew so well.
We'd built our fence of silver wire to keep the ghosts from turning our vegetables black, and when the dawn was breaking, she couldn't pass through it, and did not understand the briar gate, because the weaving of it was not in her way of thinking.
So she sat down amidst the young cabbages and wept until I, hearing her from inside our little house, came out through the door, and recognizing her plight, opened the garden gate. I nodded at her in the most pleasant way I could manage, ushered her through, and home again.
Away she dashed, with all the strangeness, beauty and grace, of a fawn startled from drinking at a stream.
Where her tears had fallen, nine perfect pearls lay on the dewy soil.
We keep them in a cup of new cream, and every ninth night, a new pearl appears, so that we will never want for anything.
Now you tell one :)
Such a lovely card! Great "tribal" hair! The image is kind of magical, and kind of sexy, and very vegetarian :) Please examine our high res scans for detail.
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