valley of glass

a reimagined moment alone from the folktale Black Bull of Norroway

Here you are again, walking the North Road in a rare moment alone before another day of your seven years promised to the village blacksmith. Seven years until you may leave the valley; seven years until you may reunite with your love, the Black Bull of Norroway. Wrap your borrowed coat tight around you and walk where you wish, down roads as real as you are and the ones that only remain in memory.