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THE LUCK CHILD
Sometimes people are born lucky. You imagine if they opened their hands, there would be a
little piece of sunshine: a personal piece. It lights them up. Everyone loves these people.
They are lit up. Cats sit on their laps. It’s luck. It’s a gift. It’s a blessing.
And therefore, it cannot be undone.
This is also true of prophesies. So, when one night a boy is born, blessed with luck, and it is
foretold that he will one day be king; no matter how poor the child, no matter how wicked the
king in power, no matter how monstruous the monster.
Not so long ago in the deep North, where it is so cold that very cold is considered quite warm,
two cold hearts ruled the land.
And it happened in a week with two Fridays that the cruel king heard of a prophesy.
A luck child was born: a peasant’s child, the seventh son of a seventh son.
It is not long before the bad king has a baby of his own. A lovely daughter. She seeks out
the one warm spot in his cold heart and then touches it. How much he loves his little darling!
Between the mill and the palace is a forest. A man on foot cannot fathem it. Few go in, few
come out.
It’s night. He’s walking in the forest. But it’s dark in there and he can’t see a thing. Not even
the dark hole he is walking towards.
“To the Griffin”, he tells to himself, “To the Griffin” …
It becomes a direction when he has none; a distance when he knows none.
One day he comes to a lake in which no fish swim.
The next passenger who comes, give him your roar. Than your yuck will be his and his
freedom yours.
And for the first time in years, hope has come into his heart, and an idea starts growing in his
mind, and a smile forms in his eyes. A tiny smile, like a flowerseed unfolding, getting ready
to be born.
I took a ferry to the other shore, across the lake. And there gold lies where pebbles should,
emeralds where sand and where the sea breacks, diamonds roll.
Nature is a wise woman who pays us back; tit fort at.