You write with a viscerally audacious voice! it’s so real, so enthralling, and utterly engrossing.
It’s a particularly rare talent to harpoon the reader’s emotions and thread them, like an arrow, through the tale - we breathe, cry and grin at your behest - you capture us, and it’s a sublime adventure.
A charming tale about the chain of life, with all its associated trials and tribulations. A story of hope, renewal and the conclusive power of true love that reaches beyond the finality of death to initiate a better world.
As a girl in a particular time and place, she had no idea that her beloved's death was just a butterfly's flapping wing which would, after a century or so, bring the world into newness and a connected, fertile and beautiful beingness that she could only dream about in the tiny corners of her subconscious mind in dreams where she flew like a goshawk over the forest with a lightness in her chest no one on earth had ever known.
Beautifully written; a mystical, magical tale under the canopy, amongst the mushrooms.
Your writing demonstrates exactly how authors should handle violent situations or actions without relying on graphic details purely for shock value. Nicely done!
Also, great use of the prompt.