Friday, 13 August 2021

The Vanishing Child

Suddenly, there was one. We’d been focusing too much attention on the one and not on the other. It’s awful to lose a child, especially when you’re put in charge of one for someone else. We had an inkling of where she was but we just couldn’t be sure. She’d left our sight. It turned out that she’d wandered a few feet away from the castle to take a breather and check out the view. But it did make us worried for a while. Anything could have happened on that hilltop, especially with exits in multiple directions surrounded by people that she wasn’t familiar with. Someone could have quite easily wandered off with her regardless or not of whether she was befriended. Or she could have felt free in the open and had decided to wander off by herself into the fields. And would anyone have seen anything and would be willing to help? Fortunately, that didn’t come to pass.


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