Down in the valley of the kings and queens
A girl filled her pockets with big copper coins
She went to the woods, a plan in her mind
And she went to the hill with the butterflies
She said to the air, "I want to be free.
I have this life and a family,
and I have all I could dream of
yet at night I stay awake
and I look at the sky
and I think to myself
that I want to be free."
So the girl spoke her words
And left a coin on the hill
As soon as she left, she was stopped by blue,
a tiny thing with fluttering wings
It sat on her arm and it whispered to her
"Go forward," it said. "No way to go but to change."
She looked at the thing, this tiny thing
And she nodded her head
And she made up her mind
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A Million Roads to Nowhere
Fantasy(BxB) A magical pendant, an irreversible curse, an adventure across a vast country, and a war that will change the world. // Patrick has grown up in the teeny town of Vertbank, never having gone far past its confines. When planning to run away from...
