So she stood still...this girl with the sad heart... and she felt her sadness and was gentle with it...And like the warmth of a sunrise just peeping through the branches...she felt it start to lighted, to lift, to brighten. Warmth crept in.
She stood still and she looked around. And as the sunlight started to trickle through the branches the shadows were less dark and damp, and more purple and alive...She sensed colour living still in the depths of the forest.
Still she stood, at the fork in the pathways...and she held the hands of her dear friends and pondered her journey forward. Eventually she stretched, she pointed her toes and wiggled
them... she put a foot forward and tested the ground... could her soles take it? And she found that they could. She took another step, tentatively... looking down a pathway that seemed familiar, one she had known a while ago but had not thought she would be taking. The pathway of walking on alone... she took another step and she stopped. For now she knew she could go that way, but she wasn't sure she wanted to.Still she stood for another moment...
And as she stood she heard a sound... faintly at first... a tinkle...a tickle in her ears... and she listened... and there they were, her twinkle blue eyed friends... slowly, not sure of their way... back they came to her pathway..."hello" they called... "where were you? we were worried we had lost you!"
And the girl smiled a soft happy smile... and in that moment the sun rose high in the sky and she realised her eyes had been tricked by the shadows... there was no fork in the pathways... just a parting to flow around a very large rock on the way... and the two pathways met again...
And in that moment...her heart smiled.
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