dreams
i dreampt that the son of a welshman were with him when a battle began. the man put his son into the river which took him to his mother. during a days long battle she put him in the river which took him to his father and the man had great heart, bolstered by the presence of his son. and she followed the child, one night, wrapped in the hands of the river spirits and came to the man giving his fire ever more stregnth, and such was the way of the battle being won.
i dreampt also, that years later, the son had lost his father, and, raised by a surrogate, were about the woods on the day of his step brother's naming. they sought a great tree who's roots were not in soil, but in the swamp, so that his brother's father could strike it with a branch, and the more echoes that came back from the swamp, the greater fortune the father could bring to his son, newly made man.
however, though there were nearly 17 echoes struck back from the swamp, a great fortune for the brother, the wisps willed that the spirit of a finnish horse would come to the son that day. the father was wroth with great fury, but the child he reared in the shadow of his own, was truly the more blessed and proven to have promise of becoming a greater man.
i dreampt also, that years later, the son had lost his father, and, raised by a surrogate, were about the woods on the day of his step brother's naming. they sought a great tree who's roots were not in soil, but in the swamp, so that his brother's father could strike it with a branch, and the more echoes that came back from the swamp, the greater fortune the father could bring to his son, newly made man.
however, though there were nearly 17 echoes struck back from the swamp, a great fortune for the brother, the wisps willed that the spirit of a finnish horse would come to the son that day. the father was wroth with great fury, but the child he reared in the shadow of his own, was truly the more blessed and proven to have promise of becoming a greater man.