#The lady

The day began the same as every other. Well, almost, this time she was rudely awakened by small feet parading over her stomach. "Mama get up! I'm hungry. And Nan isn't awake yet."

"Frea, why don't you go outside and play? You've already done your chores and I have some jewelry to make for a customer."  The boy turns away from his toy box and looks at his Mother. "Are you telling the truth? Or are you trying to make Pa's ring? So that you don't have to find the bad person that took it?"

Underneath the beat of wings, the children sing.

Their feet in the grass as the eagles sore.

But there was one who did not sing.

During the day, those that only knew her on the surface would see that she is but a young mother, going to the market.