[At first, all that is visible is a thin, pale hand. Then it withdraws, revealing a patch of flowery garden and, sitting on her backside with her limbs splayed newborn-fawn-like in the long grass and looking very dazed and bewildered, a young girl in a tattered brown and white dress ( Read more... )

[When she woke up, there was a small animal with a stick in its mouth, sitting and looking at her as if it was waiting for something. She lay there wide-eyed for a long moment, because it had no wings and she had never seen its like, but it did nothing unpleasant. Eventually, it set down the stick and trotted away ( Read more... )