This is no lie. I saw my father fall down before my eyes and watched, as the ground swallowed his clickitey-clackitey loud feet. The ground swallowed him whole.
The girl knelt down at my feet, pressing her furry costume against my skin. "Please help me," she said, and kissed one foot. She kissed the other. And when I looked down I found both the leather-bottomed shoes gone and bare toes remaining. They froze in the mountain wind. At my feet a white wolf with childlike eyes stared up at me, grinned, and ran off with two shoes in her jaws.
But since I had been given my gift I did not fear what stood in front of me. As his body touched mine if fell to the floor covered in a carpet of needles.
As mother embraced me, she looked at my brothers with great disdain and hurt.
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